Beyond the Blurb: What This Blog Is, and What It Refuses to Be
The Cultural Sea of Noise We live in a golden age of access, and a landfill of meaning. There’s more art, more music, more books, more films, more curated travel itineraries, and more content about all of it than ever before. You can stream ten thousand movies before breakfast. You can scroll through a hundred half-thoughts on architecture, or watch someone “explain” Hamlet in thirty seconds with a ring light and a soft filter. And yet, with all of that, so little of it seems to stay . We binge and forget. We repost without reading. We skim for vibes, not ideas. Culture is everywhere, but depth? That’s getting harder to find. That’s the climate this blog enters into. Not to “disrupt the discourse” (a phrase I would only use ironically and under duress), but to step aside from the churn and say: What if we actually slowed down and looked? What if we treated a film not as content but as a question? What if we read a book not to post a rating, but to ask: Why was t...