Cluster · 2011 – present
Cultural & Critical (Digital)
Aesthetics as argument, in the age of feed and algorithm.
Essays in this Cluster§ 01
41Vaporwave2011 – presentNostalgia as critique. The mall is dead; long live the mall.42Y2K Revival2021 – presentThe future as imagined in 1999. Optimistic, plastic, chrome.43Cyberpunk / Neon Futurism1982 – presentHigh tech, low life. The future is dark, wet, and full of advertising.44Solarpunk2014 – presentThe opposite of cyberpunk. A tomorrow worth living in.45Afrofuturism1950s – presentReclaiming the future through Black identity, history, and imagination.46The New Aesthetic2011 – presentThe visual artifacts of machine vision are an art form.47Anti-Design2018 – presentDesign conventions exist to be broken. Friction is information.48Maximalism / Acid Graphics2018 – presentMore is more. Attention through saturation, not subtraction.49AI-Generated Aesthetic2022 – presentThe look of the model itself. Plastic, hyperreal, uncanny.