The Weight of Being Seen

I have never much minded what people think of me. I don’t read a room for approval, and being ignored has never cost me (much) sleep. Which is what makes the last fifteen years interesting to me in a way that has almost nothing to do with vanity: I ran an accidental experiment on howContinue reading “The Weight of Being Seen”

The Post-Compliance Generation

I think about this a lot… by Bergotte What Gen Z Gets Right There is an ungenerous and emotionally immature kind of pleasure available to every ageing generation: the discovery that the young are doing everything incorrectly. Their clothes are wrong, their language is absurd, their music is noise, their manners have deteriorated and theirContinue reading “The Post-Compliance Generation”

Why Gen Z Looks So Badly Dressed to Gen X

Taste, Technology and What Happened to the Individual Eye I think About This A Lot… by Birgitte Hahn-Etc There comes a point in middle age when one catches oneself looking at a group of twenty-somethings and thinking something one had promised never to think: Why are they all dressed like that? This is treacherous territory.Continue reading “Why Gen Z Looks So Badly Dressed to Gen X”

The Cult of More

I think about this a lot…by Bergotte Greed, Consumption and the Failure of Enough Late capitalism has produced one of the strangest societies in history: we have more of almost everything and yet live inside a permanent rhetoric of lack. We have too many clothes, too much furniture, too much technology, too much food, tooContinue reading “The Cult of More”