Archive - Severance Time

April 2024

On new pop music: reviewing tracks by Charli XCX and Camila Cabello/Playboi Carti

Supernormal stimuli in "B2b" and "I LUV IT."

Apr 16

September 2023

Writing about music: "I went to heaven and it was the scariest thing in the world"

On work by DJ K, DBX, nondi_, Kevin Gates, and Michael Fried.

Sep 1, 2023

August 2023

Jim The Office Face

Some notes on the camera-as-mirror and failed processes of identification.

Aug 1, 2023

May 2023

New essay for &&&/The New Centre on the figure of the Bot

People are worried about how AI could lead to the automation of culture, but in certain respects, this automation has already taken place.

May 12, 2023

December 2022

On the vibe-oriented practice of Taylor Swift, LDR, and Lorde producer Jack Antonoff

Considering the banal sublime, the producer-as-creative director, and pop music in the 2020s.

Dec 15, 2022

November 2022

Review of The Dare at Freakquencies, 11/10

Including thoughts on "indie sleaze," the figure of the "downtown scene," and other topics.

Nov 16, 2022

August 2022

Towards a theory of the creator

A survey of the 21st century content creator's most important characteristics.

Aug 9, 2022

June 2022

May 2022

New essay on defi, prop bets, derivatives, and time

Live now on Outland.

May 2, 2022

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