Archive - Cultural Learnings

How much can change in a year?

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

Dec 23, 2022 •

Can you read my mind?

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

Jul 28, 2023 •

Is your identity a myth?

Is who you are based on what you "really" know?

Feb 25, 2021 •

What to say when you have nothing to say?

On being first or right.

May 7, 2021 •

How do you process experience?

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

Dec 27, 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 •

Where's the dancefloor?

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

Jun 22, 2021 •

Do we live in a monoculture?

On language extinction and civilisation.

Mar 19, 2021 •

How are you doing?

A question that gets thrown around a lot these days.

Apr 11, 2020 •

What does “coming out” mean?

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

Jun 29, 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 •

What is authenticity?

On queer representation and flamboyance with Rachel Coates.

Jun 8, 2021 •

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