Archive - Cultural Learnings

Can you read my mind?

The Cultural Learnings newsletter returns as an exercise in openness, with a new manifesto.

Jul 28, 2023 •

December 2022

How much can change in a year?

Recapping one year of radio silence, plus dispatches from the cosmic waiting room.

Dec 23, 2022 •

December 2021

How do you process experience?

On thinking fast and slow with journalist Nyshka Chandran, plus the best of 2021.

Dec 27, 2021 •

November 2021

Where do we go from here?

Sai Versailles opens Out of Print’s second volume as guest editor, contemplating what constitutes the spirit of our age today.

Nov 22, 2021 •

July 2021

How does "long Covid" affect a community?

The pandemic's effect on the communal body. Plus, dispatches from Jakarta's nightlife scene with techno heavyweight, Ecilo.

Jul 27, 2021 •

June 2021

What does “coming out” mean?

Anthropologist and writer Barclay Bram on bisexuality and mind-body healing.

Jun 29, 2021 •

Where's the dancefloor?

Music producer and DJ Javier Pimentel on disco, queer spaces, and finding inspiration.

Jun 22, 2021 •

How much do you give to your art?

Pop musician presh on how queer self-discovery manifests in art.

Jun 15, 2021 •

What is authenticity?

On queer representation and flamboyance with Rachel Coates.

Jun 8, 2021 •

May 2021

What to say when you have nothing to say?

On being first or right.

May 7, 2021 •

April 2021

How do you find "cultural" stories?

Journalism has changed for the worst and it's creating a crisis in our culture.

Apr 13, 2021 •

March 2021

Do we live in a monoculture?

On language extinction and civilisation.

Mar 19, 2021 •

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