Tag: digital culture
There’s Nothing Revolutionary About ‘Morning After the Revolution’
At its most entertaining, Morning After the Revolution hones in on this hollowness. In a chapter where Bowles attends a multiday course called The...
Why the Voices of Black Twitter Were Worth Saving
The fear was reasonable. It was a fear I also carried. Uncertainty about whether or not I should tell the story now, and whether...
RIP ‘Red vs. Blue.’ Machinima Is Gone—but Its Legacy Is Everywhere
Red vs. Blue is officially over. On Tuesday, Warner Bros. Discovery released Red vs. Blue: Restoration, the final installment in the long-running saga that...
Technology Is Transforming Rap Beef
Like a soap opera, you skip an episode and lose track of the story. For the past month, two of the most successful hip-hop...
1994 Was the Last Good Year—and It’s Still Going
In 1994, everything was cool. Music, movies, TVâthe cultural output felt alive. People were also very cool, or they were achieving cool by...
The Taylor Swift Album Leak’s Big AI Problem
On Thursday, Taylor Swift did a very Taylor Swift thing: She posted an Instagram story with a link to buy âFortnight,â the first...
Nas’ ‘Illmatic’ Was the Beginning of the End of the Album
Music consumption and discussion in 2024 bears little resemblance to fandom from one decade ago, let alone three or four. Old songs gain...
Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ Plays Both Sides
Garland and A24, one of the film’s distributors, declined to give WIRED an interview to discuss these topics and didn’t respond to emailed...
