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Really good article sharply analysing the world’s greatest cringe video – the “let me just say this” rap battle – and deconstructing the “void” at the centre of Australian culture.
“In the process, he exemplifies something about the Australian character [Australian culture??], and its tendency toward making a bad copy of that which travels here from afar. If anthropophagy (cannibalising i.e. digesting imperial culture) is a way of asserting independence over imperial forces, then the secret power of Snipes’ flop is the complete mockery and destruction of American rap—asserting the dominance of Australian culture’s central void, which swallows Jay Z and the Yankee hat up whole. It is a shocking performance. It takes the presumed power of anthropophagic artmaking to an extreme.”
Apr 3, 2025
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coming out of my late-stage hibernation to share some new writing (there is a PI.FYI mention...)
a deep dive into the chronic constipation of our culture at the moment...groundbreaking and totally novel...yeah. have a read, have a laugh, either way...thank u!
Apr 19, 2024
Jan 28, 2024
lots of gems it’s hard to isolate one!!! But it made me think of why I like this place and getting real recs and discovering things
Some include
“The problem is that subscribing to niche film services and hunting down bird-centric romances on YouTube are the acts of a self-selecting group—it takes money or effort or both. This ghettoizes lovers of the strange into a “fandom,” that most pejorative of internet taxonomies. Classifying love as fandom damns the most affecting and holy of reactions to art—recognizing yourself in others—into just another mode of material consumption. It turns lovers into shoppers and then sells them Funko Pop figurines of John Cassavetes. It turns connection into loneliness.”
“He describes how sailors used to navigate by looking at Venus, clearly visible even by day. This planet is still there. It hasn’t exploded. It’s still in the same relative position in the sky at the same time. But according to Davis, with the advents of the astrolabe, more accurate sea charting, and satellite GPS systems, humans can no longer see it. As far as collective perception goes, if we don’t use something, it doesn’t exist.”
Apr 26, 2024
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get da NTS app or whatever radio station u fuck with and just put that on in the morning. ya your brain might want stimulation before u can get out of bed but it doesn’t need instagram reels level shit. Just some fresh music is sometimes all u need
Feb 20, 2025
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separate your to do list into what does and doesn’t require a screen, and do those lists separately
means you aren’t constantly bouncing between a screen and the material world. Bonus points if your screenless list is completed without any music or podcasts or anything at all. You’re hiding your true power level by blocking all your thinking with consumption!!
posting a neoluddite rec on pifyi is basically reaction farming I’ve realised but I’m NOT that cynical I promise
Jan 15, 2025