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A 2023 Look-back: the internet dies, etc.

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A year when the internet platforms’ erosion became fully depressing, social media creators settled into being a petit bourgeoisie, and AI art already felt overdone With 2023 drawing to a close, I wanted to summarize a few of the major structural changes to culture that we experienced over the year. A brief advertising break: The holiday season is nigh, and a potential present for your many loved ones interested in the interplay between society and aesthetics is my book Status and Culture. (It was just recommended in The New York Times, a paper of record, as one of the “24 Things That Stuck With Us in 2023.”) And if you notice your child or partner is suddenly mumbling strange words such as Kapital, Visvim, chain-stitching, and “Needles collab,” please consider buying them the revised version of my first book, Ametora. 1. The internet collapses In 2023 it became common knowledge that the 2010s post-blog, platform-based mobile internet is eroding into oblivion, and since most contemporar

A year when the internet platforms’ erosion became fully depressing, social media creators settled into being a petit bourgeoisie, and AI art already felt overdone With 2023 drawing to a close, I wanted to summarize a few of the major structural changes to culture that we experienced over the year. A brief advertising break: The holiday season is nigh, and a potential present for your many loved ones interested in the interplay between society and aesthetics is my book Status and Culture . (It was just recommended in The New York Times , a paper of record, as one of the “24 Things That Stuck W

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