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Liminal Inferno
If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist…
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I'm Beginning to See the Light
“In the next few years,” Kyle Chayka tweeted yesterday, “the last desperate search for shreds of authentic local culture will convulse the globe as the…
Sep 8
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July 2023
The Pavilion of Dreams
Albert Pope published an excellent essay this week about the predominantly suburban character of the American built environment and architects’ failure…
Jul 15
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Drew Austin
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Fourth of July
Fireworks and real estate
Jul 7
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Drew Austin
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June 2023
Inertia Creeps
When I started watching Curb Your Enthusiasm years ago, a detail of the show that stood out to me was its portrayal of Los Angeles driving—the amount of…
Jun 23
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Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here)
Although it became a cliché long ago, Andy Warhol’s “15 minutes of fame” line, like so many of the aphorisms he tossed off, turned out to be annoyingly…
Jun 2
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May 2023
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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Drew Austin
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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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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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Drew Austin
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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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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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