Cluster · 2011 – present
Cultural & Critical (Digital)
Aesthetics as argument, in the age of feed and algorithm.
Essays in this cluster
Vaporwave
Nostalgia as critique. The mall is dead; long live the mall.
2011 – present
8 min
Y2K Revival
The future as imagined in 1999. Optimistic, plastic, chrome.
2021 – present
5 min
Cyberpunk / Neon Futurism
High tech, low life. The future is dark, wet, and full of advertising.
1982 – present
6 min
Solarpunk
The opposite of cyberpunk. A tomorrow worth living in.
2014 – present
6 min
Afrofuturism
Reclaiming the future through Black identity, history, and imagination.
1950s – present
10 min
The New Aesthetic
The visual artifacts of machine vision are an art form.
2011 – present
5 min
Anti-Design
Design conventions exist to be broken. Friction is information.
2018 – present
5 min
Maximalism / Acid Graphics
More is more. Attention through saturation, not subtraction.
2018 – present
5 min
AI-Generated Aesthetic
The look of the model itself. Plastic, hyperreal, uncanny.
2022 – present
11 min