Severin Matusek

The "checks and balances" no longer come from Congress or the courts, but from the feed.

ne side effect of the vibe shift is that the media establishment has started to accept that there is, in fact, such a thing as a Silicon Valley intellectual—not the glib, blustery dudes who post every thought that enters their brains but people who prefer to post at length and on the margins.

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?

This is an answer to the individualism of the creator economy.

Meme coins use visual and rhetorical cues like humor, irony, and absurdist lore to position themselves as accessible antidotes to traditional financial systems. They commodify our collective desire for economic empowerment, emotional gratification, and social belonging. It could be said that meme coins aestheticize financialization itself, using... See more

Proud to have 3FACE enter the @MuseumModernArt collection. And grateful to @outland_art for setting the stage and bridging worlds. It’s never simple nor routine for an institution to collect dynamic art - i.e. art that changes state. But it is this quality of... See more