Topic · 11 briefs
Media and platforms
How attention is produced, packaged and sold. Briefs on journalism, publishing, podcasts and the distribution systems that decide what gets read.
End times normal
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor diagnose the present as a “new and dangerous moment in history,” arguing that factors including the rise of the tech billionaire and the climate emerg…
Licensing control
Licensing constructs markets by converting access into a recurring transaction.
The deniable toolkit
The Russian state’s projection of power relies on a diverse but consistent set of covert tools.
The low cost of fair use
Technology firms treat vast repositories of online media as a low-cost raw material for building generative models.
The retreat of creative practice
Cultural institutions are actively framing creative production through large-scale public retrospectives.