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Culture Tatiana Rasco Culture Tatiana Rasco

Return to Form

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.

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Culture Kofi Abrefah Culture Kofi Abrefah

Videodrome (1983)

Videodrome (1983) is body-horror technophobia galore. CMNSU movie reviewer Kofi takes a look at David Cronenberg’s McLuhan-inspired film.

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Culture Alan Röpke Culture Alan Röpke

W5/WQ—Entertainment

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.

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Culture Alan Röpke Culture Alan Röpke

Phonewatching

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.

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Culture Alan Röpke Culture Alan Röpke

W4/WQ—Accelerationism

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)

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Culture Alan Röpke Culture Alan Röpke

The Electrical-Umbilical Battery Status

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.

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Culture Alan Röpke Culture Alan Röpke

The Spectaclist

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.

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Culture Alan Röpke Culture Alan Röpke

W3/WQ

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

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