I'm writing a column for @VICE about the decline of millennial cultural dominance. The latest is a cold take about that viral Edward Sharpe song, the era of peak cringe, and why nobody remembers 2010 very well:
https://t.co/5QcVcSz2UQ
now that it's 2008 again, here's the first installment of my new @VICE column about the demise of millennial culture and what's left of it
https://t.co/hvxKOqQGB1
"Present-day New York is haunted by the alternate future that normcore represented, a culture less suffused with self-consciousness where we somehow resisted the conditioning of Instagram and rejoiced in the humble and uncrowded ordinary that’s 90% as good."
Enjoyed having this conversation with @FrankNewsUS about the state of the world's digital-physical nexus: the dehumanizing nature of food delivery, cities littered with Lime scooters, the degradation of social media, etc
"The average human living today sees more things they don’t care about in one week than a medieval peasant did in their entire lifetime."
https://t.co/6JuMpB3qMy
wrote about high-speed transportation, remote work, and going places because you want to vs going places because you have to...our ambivalent relationship to progress in the 21st century https://t.co/V6eStL1RBn
"Spotify Radio invokes a nostalgic metaphor...“Radio” not only implies human curation, but a temporal shape that makes boundless digital space feel less like a massive airport terminal and more like a room in your house" https://t.co/RfF3af0Vg9