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The Museum of Sauce
Much of TikTok remains inscrutable to me, but even I can tell that it has dethroned Instagram as the internet’s most vital aesthetic engine, if not yet…
May 24
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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…
May 12
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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…
May 3
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Drew Austin
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April 2023
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…
Apr 14
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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…
Apr 4
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Drew Austin
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March 2023
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…
Mar 24
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Drew Austin
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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…
Mar 14
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Drew Austin
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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…
Mar 4
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February 2023
All That Is Air Melts into Air
One of the internet’s greatest strengths is also one of its major problems: its ability to commoditize information. Like the long succession of…
Feb 24
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Drew Austin
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Dub Housing
During the pandemic, Lake Tahoe developed a “people problem”—or so a recent Guardian piece argues, describing an “influx of remote workers, second home…
Feb 17
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Drew Austin
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The Culture of Cope
In December, the Nemesis consultancy published “Max Pain: A Recent History,” a memo that builds upon their early-2020 missive, “The Umami Theory of…
Feb 10
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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…
Feb 4
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