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The Case Against the Instant Take
Why culture criticism needs time to be right, and what we lose when every opinion has to arrive within the hour.
September 9, 2026 8 min read
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Essays and arguments on how culture moves.
Why culture criticism needs time to be right, and what we lose when every opinion has to arrive within the hour.
What we are actually doing when we perform our cultural preferences in public, and why it has so little to do with taste itself.