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Brooklyn's lost indie decade
The rise of DIY in Bloomberg’s NYC, with "Us vs. Them" author Ronen Givony
Mar 6
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Andrea Domanick
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Emilie Friedlander
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Us v. Them by Ronen Givony
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Why modern work is so chaotic and exhausting
Anna Codrea-Rado on dystopian surveillance mechanisms, non-stop notifications, and the new (post-pandemic) culture of work
Mar 3, 2023
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Emilie Friedlander
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Coachella Vibes: A Serious Investigation
What America's premiere megafest tells us about the state of culture, society and ourselves, with Katie Bain
Apr 27, 2022
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Emilie Friedlander
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Andrea Domanick
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Reality, fiction, and Luigi Mangione, with Joshua Citarella
Dec 20, 2024
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Andrea Domanick
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Emilie Friedlander
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Joshua Citarella
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Towards a unified theory of the girlboss, with TrueAnon's Liz Franczak
Oct 19, 2023
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Emilie Friedlander
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Andrea Domanick
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Liz
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How to log off, with Douglas Rushkoff
Dec 5, 2024
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Andrea Domanick
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Emilie Friedlander
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Douglas Rushkoff
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How 21st century culture lost its way, with W. David Marx
Oct 23, 2025
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Andrea Domanick
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Emilie Friedlander
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W. David Marx
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36 predictions about culture in 2026
Jan 16
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Emilie Friedlander
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Andrea Domanick
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Coachella trend report 2025
Apr 29, 2025
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Andrea Domanick
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Biz Sherbert
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Neil Young vs. Spotify Emergency Roundtable
The internet's latest "free speech" imbroglio is just another symptom of a broken streaming economy.
Feb 2, 2022
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Emilie Friedlander
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Is it time for platform socialism?
Imagining a future where platforms are democratically owned and governed by all of us, with James Muldoon
Mar 14, 2022
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Emilie Friedlander
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Yearning vs. looksmaxxing
Swoon culture, vibecoding new internets, figure skating, and more on our February Weather Report
Feb 27
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Andrea Domanick
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Emilie Friedlander
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Welcome to the reality exchange
How prediction markets are gamifying everything, with John Hermann
Feb 13
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Andrea Domanick
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Emilie Friedlander
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The network state moment
Inside the tech right's quest to start alternative nations, with Sam Venis
Jan 29
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Andrea Domanick
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Emilie Friedlander
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Sam Venis
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36 predictions about culture in 2026
What’s next for art, tech, media and society—from the war on bright white lighting to the rise of a neo oral culture.
Jan 16
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Emilie Friedlander
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Andrea Domanick
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CUJO PRESENTS: THE CALIFORNIAN IDEOLOGY IN 2026
Our second reading group meetup is just a few weeks away.
Dec 31, 2025
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Emilie Friedlander
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Andrea Domanick
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2025 retrospective: The year of content about content
The best music, films, books, style trends, and memes of 2025—with Ruby Justice Thelot
Dec 30, 2025
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Andrea Domanick
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Emilie Friedlander
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Ruby Justice Thelot
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The agony and the ecstasy of the modern job hunt
Words of Mouth's Rachel Meade Smith on the changing nature of "search work"—and the psychic contortions of squaring our innermost selves with the…
Dec 23, 2025
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Andrea Domanick
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Emilie Friedlander
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