Archive - Together, Alone

Neil Postman Always Rings Twice

First as tragedy, then as farce

Aug 15 •

July 2025

In Defense of Artifice

On Wes Anderson and the unexplainable side of style

Jul 17 •

The Uncanny Valley of Digital Pop Culture Discourse

What the response to Sabrina Carpenter's album cover teaches us

Jul 9 •

Arielle Bernstein

June 2025

The Persistence of Commodified Memory

Life after these messages

Jun 6 •

May 2025

The Age of Robot Women

Why the best films about female robots flip the gender script

May 23 •

Arielle Bernstein

April 2025

I Don’t Want To See You, You Seem Bored

On the crass commercialism of video podcasts

Apr 25 •

Can Great TV Encourage Connection?

Rethinking the narrative that TV increases loneliness

Apr 11 •

Arielle Bernstein

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March 2025

The Unsettling Joy of TV Merchandise

When tuning in to shows like Mad Men and The White Lotus, we love to watch bad behavior and flaunt our good taste

Mar 21 •

Arielle Bernstein

A Few Thoughts About Airplane Movies

In-flight, must be right

Mar 13 •

February 2025

Tiny Microphones and the Aesthetics of Amateurism

A shortcoming in the language of online video

Feb 14 •

January 2025

Babygirl and the Myth of the Girlboss

The figure of the girlboss may haunt our discourse, but it's the hot mess heroine who is the real 21st century feminist icon

Jan 23 •

Arielle Bernstein

New Year, New Cultural Landscape

Arielle and Gabe reflect on their favorite TV shows and films in 2024 and what they are most excited to watch in 2025

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