Vibing in the Ruins
What happens when the middle-class bargain breaks and online life escapes into the real world
What happens when the middle-class bargain breaks and online life escapes into the real world
In the 2020s, the weird soul of placeless America is being born on Discord servers.
There’s no time like the present to revisit the warning of forgotten media theorist Harold Innis: “Enormous improvements in communication have made understanding more difficult.”
When you’ve got a “diseases of civilization” crisis, you’re gonna get some weirdos.
The gatekeepers are dying. Why is everything so mid?
A eulogy for “humdog,” the poster who led a tech backlash in the days of dial-up
A world of authentic, post-spin journalism: The dream Jon Stewart spent a decade making real is now America’s waking nightmare. What did he get so wrong?