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Their manufactured realities were lifelike, but not transposable with life itself. They demanded to be seen (and considered) as isolated and nontransferable. Time and again, the movie was about the movie.
— May 18, 2023 06:44PM
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Sara Mobarak
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“In the same way twenty-first-century adults would grow comfortable with classifying their
OWN personalities as "brands," late-twentieth-century adults nonchalantly accepted the possibility that their principal social function was to serve as consumers.”
— May 19, 2023 09:45PM
OWN personalities as "brands," late-twentieth-century adults nonchalantly accepted the possibility that their principal social function was to serve as consumers.”
Sara Mobarak
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The sound of the insurrection was not musical. The sound of the insurrection was annoying, until it was begrudgingly zapped into nonexistence and turned into a thirty-two-second YouTube demonstration of nostalgia induction.
— May 18, 2023 06:45PM
The sound of the insurrection was not musical. The sound of the insurrection was annoying, until it was begrudgingly zapped into nonexistence and turned into a thirty-two-second YouTube demonstration of nostalgia induction.
Sara Mobarak
is 22% done
The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional success. The nineties were not an age for the aspirant. The worst thing you could be was a sellout, and not because selling out involved money. Selling out meant you needed to be popular, and any explicit desire for approval was enough to prove you were terrible.
— May 17, 2023 05:18AM
