They say that the art industry is dying, replaced by generated works from artificial intelligence. But…

Malls aren’t what they used to be.

Kick’s roofied mediatized cocktail of entertainment, hate speech, and radicalization demonstrates the path unregulated entertainment has ahead as technologies continue to get more accessible, and entertainment becomes even more entrenched into every sphere of life. The harmful spectacle that is more alluring, more enticing to consume. This is the process of Addictainment, the societal outlet for a violent entertainment.

All life becomes mediatized, experience now consumable via multistimuli form. An experience is not lived through in these conditions, instead you live a life of a perma-voyeur. Simultaneously hyperstimulated and unsatisfied, two magnetized points through which you cycle through.

We’ve witnessed a rapid resurgence of analog technology, with vinyl records and film cameras sparking revitalized interest among younger audiences. This phenomenon is a testament to our generation's collective fascination with the past, our attempt to find a semblance of authenticity or a connection to the tangible, in a vastly digitized world.

Appearances from Brenda Laurel, Mark Poster, Tiziana Terranova, Sadie Plant, and more.

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10 quotes from academics a week. Appearances from Smythe, Herman & Chomsky, Chun, Barber, and more.

There is currently still a lack of willingness to participate in university student unions as incoming students are unaware of the benefits of being involved in extracurricular activities outside their scheduled classroom hours. Sureeta Rai shares her experience with making the most of campus life. A sometimes daunting—but incredibly rewarding decision.

Think of Entertainment as its own ideology, a funnel that shapes content that incorporates it. Entertainment dominates over any medium, media, genre, technology, or industry it is implemented in. It becomes the primary way we understand life. Appearances from Postman, Dyer, Byung-Chul Han, Artz, and more.

Anyone else ever been jarred from what someone else has as their phone wallpaper? I have a bad habit of looking at other people’s phone screens on transit. I’m fascinated by it. Little glimpses into people’s lives.

This weekly segment focuses on the idea of Accelerationism, the belief that we must drastically intensify capitalism's growth and power to allow it to reach its breaking point. Appearances from Land, Fisher, Plant, Srnicek, and more. (Even a poem)

I think my phone spends more time charging than it does vice versa. This is mentally sound. In fact, I don’t trust the battery status to just show me a green, yellow, or red to signify what my battery level is at. I want to see the exact percent I am currently operating at—how much abstract time remains for the object of my love and adoration to continue serving me.

The Spectaclist loves the news. They love popular culture. They love to consume, to watch, to stay up to date. They live in the now, present in contemporary understandings. Which could never be a futile feedback loop of hopeless misery.

10 8 quotes from academic writers a week. Appearances from Shoshana Zuboff, Guy Debord, Big Marsh Luhan, Kierkegaard, and more.

The Pig Snob gets his chance at love.

10 quotes from academic writers a week. Appearances from Deborah Lupton, Neil Postman, Mark Fisher, and more.

What does it mean to see beauty amidst destruction and catastrophe? To create from a place of pain and desolation? Why is it that some of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of art come from the depths of human suffering and the abstraction of the banal?

10 quotes from academic writers a week. Appearances from Nick Land, Hannah Arendt, Sadie Plant, Jean Baudrillard, and more.

It really sucks that selling out is not really criticism that holds much ground these days. We live in the age of the entrepreneurial artist, the era of ‘getting your bag.’ We have gone full simulacra; popular artists now aren’t even artists; they are just ornaments and decorations on the product.