Severin Matusek

posting became policy

Put simply, a network state is an online community that materializes in the physical world with the goal of achieving meaningful collective action.

The Slowdown is also a collective of editors, writers, photographers, filmmakers, producers, creative directors, and strategists who work on special projects for major companies and brands, from a podcast series with soundproof booth company ROOM to a short documentary film for Van Cleef & Arpels and a book with Molteni (as featured in PIN–UP 37).

Dank memes, deep-fried memes, shitposting, feralposting, goblin mode, doomscrolling, or whatever insinuates seemingly senseless online content consumption were all essentially describing brainrot. The term, however, is iconic because it marks a significant turning point. It aptly describes the beginning of our biological coalescence with the... See more

Donning a Milady PFP (profile picture) on Twitter enters you into a distinct cyber universe: a universe where up is also down, schizzed is normie, hackers are white knights, and — crucially — art is finance.

The problem isn’t that the mean has decreased. It’s that the variance has shrunk.