Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
co-matter.comSeverin Matusek
The ‘90s version of not selling out meant refusing to play certain spaces or not letting your song be in a beer commercial. The ‘20s version of selling out means making things in limited quantities to play against mass culture. Though different, the responses come from a similar place. They’re both sensing a culture where, to quote Claire L. Evans... See more
Sell out without selling out
It’s not just the party that is over. The culture war is over. So...the right won? No, but the liberals’ media empire is over.
Mo_Diggs • The Last Days of Disco Liberalism
About values and the selfAll of this makes people question who they want to be. There’s a need that’s not being answered in economic terms or about status. It’s about belonging, being seen, recognised.
Yancey Strickler • 36. Re-bundling the creator economy + labels in web3 w/ Yancey Strickler
Creative Futures Counterstructures (CFC) is Mozilla Foundation’s 10-week cultural R&D residency where creative technologists and communities come together to imagine, test, and build alternative tech infrastructures.
Through critical learning sessions, hands-on workshops, collaborative play, and a public exhibition, residents will design and... See more
Through critical learning sessions, hands-on workshops, collaborative play, and a public exhibition, residents will design and... See more
Creative Futures Counterstructures | Mozilla Foundation
Truth is only important relative to the lore object, whether that be fictional media, or the real life of an internet micro-celebrity.
Libby Marrs • I Would Very Much Like To Be Excluded From This Lore
The line between our personal and professional lives has become so blurred that social media feels less like a place for genuine connection and more like a stage for curated performance.
Social media is no longer social
The final notes of the AI-and-I essay are cowed resignation, awed acquiescence, and what Trotsky called the “terrifying helplessness” of cultural production at “the beginning of a great epoch”
https://www.nplusonemag.com/author/lisajborstgmail-com/ • Large Language Muddle
It's the perfect crystallization of what America has become: the world's most powerful content creator.
kyla scanlon • From Dollar Dominance to the Slop Machine
Layoffs. Side hustles. Freelancers everywhere. Elaborate new titles.
What even is a “career path” now?I don’t think this is just a downturn
It's not a glitch, it’s a whole new operating system
“market but also all risk borne on individuals not orgs and with that the loss of expertise building, domain knowledge, and institutional knowledge. It means everyone will eventually be starting from scratch with every process on ever project, ending up in the same problem crypto people have where they are constantly "inventing" things that have existed for centuries.”