I had the pleasure of teaching Laura some years ago on the Magazine MA at City. She’s been on a difficult journey since her diagnosis, but has come through the other side, and has a book out next year. This put some of my own challenges in perspective.
While some of this is about NFTs 🥱, the idea of digital clothes sold purely for use in social media images is a really interesting development of virtual goods. Buying cosmetic outfits in a game is one thing, buying them as part of the make-believe aspirational world of influencers is quite another. The physical/virtual interface is a fascinating place.
This is brutal. Om expresses his own misgivings about journalism through quotations from the late Janet Malcolm, who had some serious issues with her own profession.
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