>"In this month’s installment of “The Downward Spiral,” Dean Kissick writes a roundup of New York’s fall exhibitions. They are many, so many, and pleasant, so pleasant, as palliatives for a doomed dying world."

>"In an infamous episode of his comedy show Nathan For You, Nathan Fielder rebranded a faltering independent Los Angeles coffee shop as a “Dumb Starbucks” selling “dumb iced coffee,” made it over into a convincing simulacrum of the chain _...Read More_

>"It’s 2041 in Australia, and money is easy, energy is clean, and AI is everywhere. But when one young Aboriginal woman takes a caregiver job, she ends up uncovering past traumas that remain painful even when society seems perfect."

My patients and I don’t use words like “choice” or “viability.”

"Have we blown past the point of Peak Identity? Continuing on the heels of last month’s column, Dean Kissick considers how memes and masks have superseded the performance of the self."

>"Twenty-three years later, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal is a tale of cultural sadism."

"Understanding the shifting balance of social forces, interest groups and political factions is essential to see how China escaped the shock therapy that brought down the Soviet Union."

"Humans are programmed to avoid pain and gain pleasure. What if pain is the very thing we need to grow beyond the challenges that hold us back?"

The Cosmic Bulletin invites readers on a journey into cosmic and cosmist reflection through a constellation of theoretical essays, poetry, film scripts, and other textual pieces inspired by the _...Read More_