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 Andy Warhol: “When Warhol turned to me at a party and said, ‘This is such hard work!’ it struck a nerve.” I’ve never doubted this was true for O’Brien and Warhol, but what about everyone else? If the elite’s present norms do indeed anticipate those of the masses by a decade or so (as I
Still thinking about this talk they showed us in college in which one of the creators of Farmville is just sooo excited about the gamification of daily life
#200: All Tomorrow's Parties
The classic description of parties as work: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/every-bay-area-house-party
Still thinking about this talk they showed us in college in which one of the creators of Farmville is just sooo excited about the gamification of daily life
https://youtu.be/DLwskDkDPUE