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#185: The Painted Word
When you write about technology—or most subjects, really—there are certain topics that the internet seems to hand down like homework, demanding that…
Drew Austin
Jun 25
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Security of the Fourth World
Last week, San Francisco’s polarizing district attorney, Chesa Boudin, was removed from office in a recall election, marking the culmination of a…
Drew Austin
Jun 16
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#184: Pure Pain Sugar
In Sarah Schulman’s book The Gentrification of the Mind, she laments, “Will everything (books, music, pornography, education, movies, friendship…
Drew Austin
Jun 3
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#183: Supraculture
Earlier this week I published an essay in the Dirt newsletter about the cultural role of geography as content in the post-pandemic era. My primary…
Drew Austin
May 27
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Headphones Urbanism
In 2019, I wrote an essay about AirPods—which still felt relatively new at the time—and their relationship to public space. My main argument was that…
Drew Austin
May 18
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#182: New Noise
There is a set of words—gentrification, hipster, neoliberalism, capitalism—that feel surprisingly difficult to use in most contexts now, provoking a…
Drew Austin
May 13
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Golf Cart Cities
There was a recent story in the Financial Times about Miami’s crypto-fueled ascent to the status of “most important city in America.” That title is in…
Drew Austin
May 5
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#181: Here Come the Warm Jets
In 2009, Brian Eno wrote that we are living in a “stylistic tropics,” in which genres like ambient music have split into a multitude of subgenres—black…
Drew Austin
Apr 15
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Local Dystopia: The Double Dragon City
My friend TW Lim (who writes an excellent newsletter about food and the restaurant industry) recently texted me from rural New Hampshire, where he had…
Drew Austin
Apr 6
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#180: Ocean Size
Last week I wrote a piece for Wired about Google’s promise of infinite data storage and how that expectation has turned us into digital hoarders over…
Drew Austin
Mar 25
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The Ghost in the Machine
My favorite architecture theorist, Sanford Kwinter, wrote this in 1997: “The efficient but one-dimensional marketplace world in which we live…is a…
Drew Austin
Mar 18
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#179: Chairs Missing
I’ve never muted a person or topic on Twitter. I’ve constructed an entire social media philosophy around this: If I need to mute someone on Twitter then…
Drew Austin
Mar 12
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