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Cheese Puff Culture

On AI Slop

"We face a choice: sink narcotised into the enshitocene, or learn to swim alongside a million blonde Jesuses fused with crustaceans"

Smooth Talk

How Optimisation Colonised Visual Culture

"As life becomes smoother, faster, more optimised, we mistake the removal of friction for freedom — and then find ourselves bored, impotent, and aesthetically numbed, scrambling to reintroduce difficulty in symbolic or cosmetic ways."

Tortured Artists, Survive

Does making art require suffering?

'It has never been so easy to launch an artistic career – or to ‘put oneself out there’ – nor to become quickly discouraged in the race for success.'

Youth Must Be Served

Why youth is the hottest commodity

'In our anachronistic age, youth is the highest currency. And, just as the rich dodge tax, so too are they able to dodge mortality – the outward signs of it, at least.'