Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
co-matter.comSeverin Matusek
The magic of the internet is that it lets us build whole new societies on top of the existing one. These new, internet-led societies have repeatedly shown the power to evolve, push, and even overtake the physical society that created them (for good and for ill).
A new creative beginning
Mamdani proved attention is the path to institutional override. Just like Trump, but from the other side.
kyla scanlon • Trump, Mamdani, and Cluely
The rise of Onlyfans can be interpreted as a “commodification of intimacy” where, unlike porn, adult creators can now provide lonely men intimacy at scale over DMs.
The Loneliness Economy: How can technology help us belong?
Carly speaks from her background in magazines to explain that adding a Discord channel to the NEW MODELS structure was important because “editors don’t make magazines, they make audiences. And a magazine or a podcast alone is no longer the way to do that. It has to be something more cybernetic.” She paraphrases theories from K Allado McDowell’s... See more
Artist Profile: New Models
“You have to be embedded in the culture that you’re critiquing, in order to mirror the techno-dystopic landscape that we live in“ – Siâna-Leann Douglas
This collective is radically rethinking what it means to make art
We also couldn't really participate in building Web2, in part because of our age, and because it was pretty localized who was building it.
Yana Sosnovskaya • Channel and the Great Re-bundling of Media – ZORA ZINE
- As traditional institutions lose credibility, more activity shifts to attention-based platforms.
- As more activity shifts to attention-based platforms, the incentives become more distorted.
- As the incentives become more distorted, traditional institutions lose more credibility.
kyla scanlon • From Dollar Dominance to the Slop Machine
And yet brands and influencers alike still cling to follower count because the truth of the matter - the increasing randomness of reach - is just too hard to accept.