Meme culture has changed both the meaning and the function of irony. What once meant rebellion now shows hyper-specific belonging. Isn’t it ironic? At a time when irony has become the default self-referential tone of social media, we’re relying more and more on systems that are, by their
My generation moved through more music formats than most. Mixtapes. Burned CDs. MiniDiscs. MP3s and Winamp. iPods. Each format carried its own distinct sound. Looking back, it almost feels like the format defined the music. Or was it the other way around? Mixtapes came first. Raw French alt-rock stitched with
As I was looking for a clean, ad-free, online space for my writing, I kept coming across mentions of the Fediverse. The name sounds like it belongs in an 80s cyberpunk novel. Federation. Decentralised servers. An open system where separate platforms still connect through a shared protocol. It all reminded
My first steady job after art school came through cold calling. During an internship at a print design studio, I was advised to start with trend agencies, the now nearly defunct bureaux de style. They were open to freelancers, and their trend publications offered a kind of creative freedom that
Imagine the clouds dripping. Dig a hole in your garden to put them in. Yoko Ono wrote those lines in 1963 as part of her Instruction Pieces, works that transformed a fragment of text into an artwork through the reader's imagination. Visual GenAI fascinates me for much the
The old Turing test asked whether a machine could pass for a human in conversation. The question now is: can it pass for a friend? A new film version of Klara and the Sun is forthcoming and it could not feel more timely. I read the book when it first
Job hunting today is relentless. You can ace an interview and still hear nothing. My daughter is in the middle of her search. She approaches it like the hustle it is, and her interview ratio is enviable. She skipped the usual run of student jobs and went straight for proper