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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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#178: I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It)
The Blackbird Spyplane newsletter recently made a valuable contribution to the pantheon of essays about how the internet has transformed the physical…
Drew Austin
Mar 4
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Blip Culture
Yesterday, the Y2K Aesthetic Institute, which curates “late ‘90s-2003 futurism,” posted a thread of ‘90s rave flyers (scanned from a 1999 book called…
Drew Austin
Mar 1
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#177: Country Feedback
In a recent episode of his podcast, Sean Monahan described a phenomenon he called “the West Elm Calebificiation of content” in which media and internet…
Drew Austin
Feb 11
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Gentrified and Dematerialized
I have a working theory—probably not original—that Williamsburg, Brooklyn is the internet era’s quintessential urban zone (it’s hard for me to call it a…
Drew Austin
Feb 10
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#176: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
This newsletter has a paid tier that, in my humble opinion, is awesome. If you subscribe you’ll get my (slightly) longer essays on urbanism and…
Drew Austin
Jan 28
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