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Category: Alexandra Kitty
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Streaming executives: private ministers of culture
There is another kind of cultural executive who prefers hoodies to tweed. He talks about innovation, disruption, and “serving fans,”…
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Big publishing executives: corporate curators of “serious” thought
There is a particular kind of executive who likes to imagine herself as a custodian of civilization. She sits on…
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The Cleanup Crew Calls It Strategy
There is a ritual that runs on a tight schedule. Day one: a fiasco. Contradictory orders, people making decisions they…
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Changes are coming
I won’t say what, but after testing various concepts here, I see what I like and what I don’t. The…
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A human and a AI walked into a corporate cocktail party…
Alexandra: A human and an AI walk into a corporate cocktail party. One of them is here for the canapés,…
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Non-Verbal Propaganda Signals: A Typology of Aesthetic Trust Manipulation in Visual Media
Overview This dossier presents a working typology of non-verbal propaganda signals: the aesthetic, sensory, and relational mechanisms by which visual…
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Gaze Laundering: Euphoria, Petra Collins, and the Propaganda of Aesthetic Trust: A Dossier
Executive Summary This dossier introduces and examines the concept of gaze laundering: the deliberate appropriation of a female-coded visual language, built…
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Petra Collins and the Trojan Horse Problem
Petra Collins did what any sane, professional, honest person would do. Sam Levinson approached her through her agent and, by…