Reattach to Love: notes on interdependence
The narrowing window of compatibility for technical standards must on some level reflect the deteriorating criteria for compatibility between people.
Rolling In the Deep: notes on the immersive turn
From curated playlists to culinary experiences, ‘immersive’ was the inescapable buzzword of 2025. What about this moment makes us want to be purposefully inundated?
Vibe Code: NicheMTL’s top eleven albums of 2025
What is interesting, and what is important? Interesting is an aesthetic, qualitative judgement, and important is a formal and quantitative one.
Time Image: notes on Tyson Houseman’s Askîwan ᐊᐢᑮᐊᐧᐣ
Tyson Houseman’s Askîwan ᐊᐢᑮᐊᐧᐣ incorporates consumer technologies to spectacular ends, our critic writes, and is unmistakably operatic in scope.
Soldiering On: notes on nostalgia versus tradition
What is it about traditions that are so repellant and attractive? Why now is there a marked turn back toward them? And what is the difference between tradition and nostalgia?
The Immediate Data of Consciousness
The hyper-capitalist obsession with time management and leisure indicates that time is no longer money; time is far more valuable than any currency. We cannot reliably exchange our labour time for money.
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