Severin Matusek

—or for the putatively spontaneous expansion of support for campaigns that were coördinated in darkness.

There is a clear pattern for all four companies [Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google]: each controls, to varying degrees, the entry point for customers to the category in which they compete. This control of the customer entry point, by extension, gives each company power over the companies actually supplying what each company “sells”, whether that be... See more

Walk into Lululemon’s new Chicago flagship and you might wonder if you’ve stumbled into a wellness resort.

The logic is simple enough. Amazon demolished traditional retail’s convenience advantage years ago. Physical stores had to find a new selling point or die trying. Their answer? Theatre. From Samsung’s product-testing playgrounds to Canada... See more

A core strategy of what we build at Metalabel is based on the assumption that CONTEXT is queen.

To showcase the power of the new tool (sign up for the early access waitlist here), Dazed has teamed up with SOOT, inviting five visionary creatives to take a deep dive into their digital archives. In the first episode of Hard Drive Reveal , a series of films directed by Guy Gooch and produced by Stink, we get to see renowned London graffiti artist... See more

Although chaotically inclined individuals score highly in a popular measure for loneliness, they don’t seem to seek the obvious remedy. “What they’re reaching out to get isn’t friendship at all but rather recognition and status,” Petersen said. For many socially isolated men in particular, for whom reality consists primarily of glowing screens in... See more

With the platform era now coming to a close (partially due to AI slop’s overreach) and AI supposedly driving cognitive costs to zero, counterintuitively, our institutional structures will enter a growth phase in response to a new demand for shared narratives.

There needs to be serious regulatory thought about dealing with that, if we’re entering into a scenario in which our digital twins are potentially more economically productive than our physical corporeal existence.”

We're all participants in a cognitive economy that trades in attention, belief, and behavior. Shape the feed, shape the future. What happens when everything becomes an attention-speculation machine?