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Against the Frictionless Feed

A defense of aimless knowing

Analyzing Trends

Jun 21, 2026

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I want to start today with an image from eighteen forties Paris that sounds like a piece of surrealist performance art, but was actually a dead serious social statement. For a brief period it was fas…

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