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“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform.”

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The Ringed City, while a beautiful way to conclude Dark Souls, mostly left us with nothing but questions. As time went on, more and more…

Ah yes, of course.

A new history of Christian communism glosses over the tradition’s complications in the interest of a statist conclusion.

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Drone blimps, emotional video editing, better Apple Watches and other patents from Big Tech.

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Splunk, Dropbox and Brex followed similar formulas as they grew from small startups to established companies. To attract employees and customers, each set up elaborate San Francisco offices and plastered billboards for its services around the city. Dropbox three years ago leased a giant new ...

Ahead of the election, we have stories about people trying to live in the unreality that defines this moment.

The comedian delighted millions with her Trump lip-syncs. After the election, she may be on to her next act.

In the late 2000s I was sleeping with all of my friends. This didn’t make me special; we were young in one of the several ways people move to cities like New York in order to be young. We were in general not doing much with our lives and so we did what generation after generation of young people have done in order to combat that particular circumstance: We tried to generate enough sex drama amongst ourselves that we didn’t have to notice that we weren’t doing much of anything, that things were harder than they were promised to be, that we had very little money and that everyone else seemed ...

There is a moment in "Shrek" when the despicable Lord Farquaad has the Gingerbread Man tortured by dipping him into milk. This prepares us for another moment when Princess Fiona's singing voice is so piercing it causes jolly little bluebirds to explode; making the best of a bad situation, she fries their eggs. This is not your average family cartoon. "Shrek" is jolly and wicked, filled with sly in-jokes and yet somehow possessing a heart.

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In an era of capitalist ruin, we need an architectural history of the people.