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I saw Lana at Wembley and finally wrote down my Total Unified Theory of her persona and music, a decade in the works - 🍒Tumblr as an exercise in reimagining the 20th century 🍒New Hollywood, and Lana's Spenglerian worldview 🍒Lana as cool medium, Madonna as hot medium

READING THE ROOM No. 4 - The Gutenberg Galaxy In which Felice Basbøll and I puzzle over the cryptic writings of Marshall McLuhan. Topics include ancient shopping lists, Chinese characters, the medium and message, tech and culture

Listen also for what makes a good grand theory, thoughts on media studies, and Ella Dorn 唐棠's attempt to explain Chinese phonetics to me

I successfully broke into Liz Truss' press conference in Taipei but was kicked out before she took the stage

I actually think all my best creative work has been driven by monumentally low levels of self-esteem. It's an underrated artistic aid. Maybe I could write an Artist's Way-type book where the advice is just 'Avoid cognitive behavioural therapy, ignore the root causes' etc.

Reviving my blockbuster bank holiday "Leave Katy Perry Alone" article for The Spectator . This was a very clever and funny pop video, misread on a galactic scale by "tastemakers" who were fundamentally tasteless all along

Read the piece people are saying is... wait what??

Everyone knows about the Citizen Kane episode but the Orson Welles callbacks go deeper. Baby Mr Burns is very clearly modelled after George Amberson from the Magnificent Ambersons!