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Heaven Is a Truck
Swirling in the cesspool that is Twitter urbanism discourse (I shudder to even string those words together) is a popular genre of content that resembles…
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Jukebox Metadata
Byung-Chul Han concludes his 2022 book Non-things with an essay about jukeboxes. The short book is an affirmation of the value of physical…
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Gut of the Quantifier
In a recent issue of the excellent Vittles newsletter, Jonathan Nunn wrote about the decline of the restaurant review and its replacement by the…
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Non-people, Non-places, Non-things
The NPC, or non-player character, is a concept from video games that has become a useful, or at least amusing, metaphor for real world behavior. In a…
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Ex Lion Tamer
Criticism of Spotify has traditionally focused on its poor economics for artists and its flattening of music taste (read Liz Pelly’s excellent Baffler…
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Manhattan Hotel Futurism
“The model of the hotel undergoes a conceptual overhaul and is invested with a new experimental ambition that creates Manhattan's definitive unit of…
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Speak No Evil
John Herrman’s recent piece about the “junkification” of Amazon is among the latest of many essays observing the internet’s apparent descent into…
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Kneeling Bus
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