Severin Matusek

"Sciences are born when philosophy learns to ask the right questions; their potential is suppressed when it does not. New philosophy is born when new technologies force it to invent new concepts."

About the problems of the Creator Economy There is a desire to be seen how you wish to be seen. Content today is presented without almost zero context, e.g. videos on Youtube recommended by an algorithm.

posting became policy

Is it clear to you when a trend forecast is coming from amateurs versus the professionals?

ES: I mean, no. I think an amateur and a professional have kind of an equal chance at hitting the nail on the head. True flashes of cultural insight happen where you’re lucky enough to just put the right words against the cultural phenomenon at the right... See more

Joshua Citarella argues that Gen Z and Millennials used irony as a defense mechanism against late capitalism’s perceived betrayals, from a soaring cost of living to the increasingly precarious nature of labor. “Irony as culture became: ‘The band I like will sell out, so I’ll buy-in early.’ Irony as politics became: ‘Movements get corrupted, so I’ll... See more

Changing how we think of value requires changing how we think of self. Bentoism is an answer to that, a practical framework to think about the Now Me, Now Us, Future Me, Future Us.

Spawning is different. Instead of lifting fragments, you train a model on an artist’s entire body of work and generate new material in their style. Clear lineage, but fuzzy origins. Sampling dealt in citation. Spawning touches the DNA. This distinction matters because spawning raises the stakes in ways that sampling never did. When your work trains... See more