"The vibes map aims to capture and structure what’s happening in our culture right now, from brand products to places to art and design. It tells us where the zeitgeist is going and what we _...Read More_

"The Bear was created by co-showrunner Christopher Storer, who directed five out of the eight episodes and wrote three of them (co-writing a fourth). His work executive producing and directing a number of stand-up specials and Ramy _...Read More_

“The same commentators who use vibes today might have reached for charisma. But while charisma was admiring and grand, vibes is noncommittal and irreverent.”

“The old way of building products was to try and be everything to everyone. Products were chunky, bloated, and didn’t serve the _...Read More_

"Trend Diagnostic"

"Maybe a vibe shift is a barometer for one’s sense of self... There is a sense of freedom in sitting out certain shifts and trusting that I will still be relevant — if _...Read More_

“There is a self-effacement that takes place in embracing this new language, a sense that you are not “the main character” of a situation, as another TikTok meme might describe it, but a replaceable observer. “No thoughts, just vibes,” one _...Read More_

What is the Internet, and what is happening there right now, even today, since it is always a matter of today, of what was online today (‘1h ago’ or less)?

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"“Interacting” with the testimony of Holocaust survivors is not same as listening"

In The Time of Money, economic sociologist Lisa Adkins argues that finance capitalism has reworked money and debt so they function not as quantity, volume, quantum, or substance but as heterogeneous processes that surround _...Read More_

Venture capitalists want to build the libertarian fantasy of a city without commons

Dena Yago on Billie Ellish, vibe and affect.