Severin Matusek

Imagining a world where a metalabel is a common paradigm that people create. Where the output is a little bit slower. Where there is more deliberation, more pairs of eyes on things. I think it’s just a healthier experience.

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.

Yancey Strickler argues that the way we see our self influences what we perceive as valuable - a concept he further expands through Metalabel and his idea of post-individualism. 

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?

I think everything you write has a purpose, and if you understand the purpose and the audience, you shouldn’t veer too far from what its intention is. I would like to be good at writing ad copy, writing press releases and writing articles in all their correct ways, but then also be able to experiment and expand the form.

The anti-social century is the result of one such cascade, of chosen solitude, accelerated by digital-world progress and physical-world regress. But if one cascade brought us into an anti-social century, another can bring about a social century. New norms are possible; they’re being created all the time. Independent bookstores are booming—the... See more

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

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