Archive - idle gaze

idle gaze 073: satire, the great cultural sedative.

Is irony a powerful form of creative subversion? Or a complacent coping mechanism?

May 19

March 2025

idle gaze 072: dark mode

Reject the smiling assassin. Embrace the “mask-off” supervillain.

Mar 20

January 2025

idle gaze 071: rotting upstream

the low brow sludge → high culture flex pipeline of brain rot

Jan 7

December 2024

idle gaze 070: the youth = relevance -> age = confidence shift

the allure of staying young is fleeting but the confidence of growing old runs deep.

Dec 1, 2024

November 2024

idle gaze 069: re-enchanted decision-making

spicing up the rational realm with a dose of intuition and wonder.

Nov 4, 2024

September 2024

idle gaze 068: the weird wonderland of corporate jargon

portmanteaus, nonsense words and strange creatures.

Sep 27, 2024

August 2024

idle gaze 067: slowpunk

stillness as a radical act of rebellion.

Aug 9, 2024

June 2024

May 2024

April 2024

idle gaze 063: the discomfort of uncurated life

unpacking our aversion to the unedited, unordered world.

Apr 24, 2024

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