Links / Culture

• Looking elsewhere

  № 56

  Many great thoughts in this article by Robb Owen about craft, intentionality, standards and hype.

• You’re Still Exhausted

  № 38

  A confronting but sobering read by Anne Helen Petersen on why we’re all still exhausted from this pandemic.

• The Diminishing Returns Of Calendar Culture

  № 37

  "Several attributes and practices valorized by a monochronic understanding of time—which we could also call Rapid-Growth Capitalism time, or Productivity Fetishist time, or White Bourgeois time—are objectively in service of efficiency. And yet, big surprise, they are often highly inefficient."

  Anne Helen Petersen on time (the misery of monochronic time, to be exact), based on the unwillingness of (certain) academics to accommodate for and use digital calendars, and calendar invites.