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#200: All Tomorrow's Parties
Among Glenn O’Brien’s many incisive aphorisms, his assertion that “parties are work” has always stuck with me. O’Brien claimed to have learned this from…
Drew Austin
Feb 4
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Goodbye Horses
With AI discourse proliferating as wildly as the output of the technology itself, I find myself wondering about the historical ratio of content to…
Drew Austin
Feb 1
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January 2023
#199: Rust Never Sleeps
Paul Fussell’s 1983 book Class: A Guide Through the American Status System is a caustic examination of a topic that Americans supposedly don’t think…
Drew Austin
Jan 20
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Flyover Country
I started 2023 in a way that feels appropriate for the current climate, heading to JFK at 4pm on New Year’s Eve, boarding a plane at 6, and ringing in…
Drew Austin
Jan 13
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#198: Motion Suggests Itself
In the spring of 2020, when there wasn’t much else happening, I took a long walk through Greenpoint's industrial fringe, eventually wandering down a…
Drew Austin
Jan 6
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December 2022
One More Day Up in the Canyons
This is officially “last post of the year” week, which for many of us means recapping the preceding 12 months, teasing out the dominant narratives…
Drew Austin
Dec 30, 2022
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#197: Twin Infinitives
The editors of n+1 recently published an essay asking why everything in today’s urban environment is so ugly, via a fictional ramble around a…
Drew Austin
Dec 16, 2022
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#196: I Care Because You Do
Despite the popularity of analogies comparing social networks to casinos, the best metaphor for our current cultural anomie, or at least the part that’s…
Drew Austin
Dec 2, 2022
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November 2022
Pretend It's a City
Back in 2020, when we were all logging 15 hours of screen time per day (you were too, right?), trying to come to grips with the internet’s sudden role…
Drew Austin
Nov 23, 2022
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#195: Trouble in the Message Centre
I still feel silly calling Facebook by its new name, but Meta mostly ends up in the news for bad reasons these days, the same way it did before…
Drew Austin
Nov 12, 2022
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Meet Me in the Cloakroom
Artist James Turrell recently released a fragrance collection in collaboration with French glassmaker Lalique, expanding his work with light and…
Drew Austin
Nov 4, 2022
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October 2022
#194: Exit Flagger
I recently published a short essay in the Dirt newsletter about how using the internet is becoming more like watching TV, with TikTok as the main vector…
Drew Austin
Oct 28, 2022
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