Culture Trust

Columns

A Fan’s Notes

Kate Wagner

June 20, 2019

In the Jon Bois era, the specious divide between sports and art can no longer stand.

End of Rand

Richard A. Greenwald

June 11, 2019

Have we witnessed the last gasp of “objectivist” piety?

The Corporate Logo Singularity

Rachel Hawley

June 07, 2019

The childlike nature of corporate branding isn’t a random trend, but part of the mindset that consumers ought to be treated like children.

San Francisco, Please Stand Up

Sophie Haigney

June 05, 2019

Everyone is obsessed with San Francisco right now. It has become a symbol, a cliché, a fable about money and technology. The moral is different depending on who you ask. A sampling of headlines from the last month in local and national news: “How San Francisco broke ...

Unpopular Content

Oscar Schwartz

May 31, 2019

Default Filename TV wants to make YouTube weird again.

Rotten Goes Rancid

Matt Hanson

May 23, 2019

John Lydon has mutated into a member of the self-satisfied whiny bourgeoise set he made a profitable career out of shocking.

In the Hands of Angry Gods

Ed Simon

May 22, 2019

Secular though I may feel that I am, I can’t escape the heat of hell.

The Netflix-Twitter Complex

Corey Atad

April 24, 2019

Lonely, confused, and horny brands are irritating enough, but Netflix accounts tip over into ugly self-righteousness.

Thing Untweetable

Josie Thaddeus-Johns

April 23, 2019

Jenny Holzer in the social media age

Home/work

Zoë Beery

April 11, 2019

One of industrial capitalism’s gravest sins is the separation of work from home. Factories cleaved in two what was once a unified sphere, a place that you both created and inhabited, living relatively un-alienated amongst the fruits of your labor. Not that it was an equal ...

This Is Us

Stephen Kearse

April 05, 2019

In Us, Jordan Peele’s evokes a long history of American violence—without naming its victims and beneficiaries.

Fuck The Vessel

Kate Wagner

March 21, 2019

The Vessel is a structure that invites parody . . .