Severin Matusek

Participation. The token gives me permission to participate in the project and/or its culture, in whatever way that may be defined.

Many anonymous online spaces dedicated to “youthful” activities (gaming, degenerate trading, fandoms etc.) are in fact filled with 40 year olds. Not because they’re groomers, but because they never felt like they aged out of them. 40 year old boomers are colonizing traditionally young cultural spaces with their own youth culture vintage. There’s no... See more

METALABEL: The feeling I have looking at your universe is you’re people with an incredible amount of self confidence. You have a vision that you're not afraid to pursue. Looking at it as a creative person, it’s inspiring. What I want to be when I grow up.

CLAIRE : There's a certain Rubicon that gets crossed in an artist's life where there's no... See more

People will pay for the convenience of not poring through internet sludge all day and having someone clarify what they need to know.”

As others have said, influencing the world today is not about writing new manifestos, but instead, developing new protocols for how we operate and determining how things are produced, how they circulate, and in turn, how reality is materially composed.

The final notes of the AI-and-I essay are cowed resignation, awed acquiescence, and what Trotsky called the “terrifying helplessness” of cultural production at “the beginning of a great epoch”

It’s not financially responsible to throw our ideas around online for free anymore, but the alternative threatens the spirit of what internet community is supposed to be about.

“The other day I was tinkering around in my garage and I decided to build a new ideology.”