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A weekly upload decrypting four codes that program our world: barcodes (consumerism), dress codes (fashion), coding (tech) and codifiers (cultural…
Jul 1, 2025
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How to pitch (and actually get a yes)
Some overdue tips & tricks on writing for publications
Dec 17, 2025
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The year we became slop
In an uncanny, over-filtered world where reality already feels AI-generated, slop is what our appetites keep defaulting to. But how do we stop eating…
Dec 15, 2025
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The collapse of cool
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To be desirable is currency. To desire is liability.
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No one is bored and everything is boring
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The cringe-sincerity cycle and building exclusivity through lore
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10 articles about taste that are actually worth reading
Aug 25, 2025
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The enshittifcation of thinking
Aug 3, 2025
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From post-truth to post-meaning
+ have TikTok microtrends reinvented themselves as niche gift guides? Are we finally witnessing the end of "I could have made that" art? This and more…
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Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun
To think and write beyond the algorithm's reflexes you need a foundation deeper than the feed.
Nov 14, 2025
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To be desirable is currency. To desire is liability.
Between semen retention and self-tracking, the modern subject has turned erotic energy into an economic asset. But in our devotion to control, have we…
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Fashion loves women as consumers. But does it love them as people?
The fashion industry is once again packaging femininity into palatable trends and leaving real women behind.
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Showing flesh in the age of conservatism
+++ AI auteurs, peak commentator-core, fashion's class anxiety and eroticism as a life force.
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I shop, therefore I am (exhausted)
Everyone is selling, no one is buying.
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Repairing cognitive function fall
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