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“They’re at the vanguard of a movement that’s leveraging the disruptions of the pandemic to question so many more of the arbitrary assumptions that have come to define the modern workplace.”
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
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David Bergen • The Matter With Morris: A Novel
Substack is under attack again. The crusade is led by a site contributor, Jonathan Katz, whose style might be characterized as embittered-conventional
The New York Times will triumph financially, dramatically so, and utterly fail as an intellectual institution, at least by its former standards. The editorial branding will be august pronouncements about ‘the paper of record’, but the business model is pure Netflix: All The News Fit To Binge.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Twilight of the Media Elites
Jeremy O. Harris, who’s a producer on HBO’s Euphoria, tweeted that the show was made for people “with an intellect for CINEMA not the impatience of TELEVISION.”
Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"
The past hundred years a canon that defined modernity, post-modernity, and our world was established, celebrated, illuminated, and constantly revised by critics and appreciators who used the pen to make their case. They’re the ones who helped establish cultural significance. They’re the ones who remind us to marvel not at demographics, but at indiv... See more
The prestige recession
He conducts an ongoing interrogation about what it all means. What’s black culture? What’s hip-hop? What are the responsibilities of a society and the people in it? And his inquiry isn’t bloodlessly academic, either; there’s something very consequential about his approach.
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson • Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
I Am Going to Miss Pitchfork, but That’s Only Half the Problem
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DFW as literary spy magazine parodies.