ZINE

Interview with Douglas Rushkoff: Program or Be Programmed

🎧 Listen now | Rushkoff on how to reject what our platforms want and embrace our humanity

Nov 19 • 

Matt Klein

1:03:22

Self-Sabotaging Innovation: The Art of Doing Dumb Shit

Today, we’re not just creatively stunted, inefficient and unsatisfied. We’re actively sabotaging ourselves. And worse, we’re calling it business as…

Nov 12 • 

Matt Klein

 and 

Elisabeth Bromberg

October 2024

Future Burnout: On the False Promises & Expectations of What Comes "Next"

This temporal anxiety is, in many ways, a new type of burnout, a burnout on the future.

Oct 30 • 

Matt Klein

 and 

Akili Moree

Marketing Won't Save You. Your Consumers Will.

We're spending more time, energy and money on the attempted harmonization of an offering and culture, than we are ensuring whatever’s being produced is…

Oct 23 • 

Matt Klein

September 2024

Unplugging Is Not The Solution You Want

🎧 Listen or Read | Why acceptance is another worthy approach to finding peace online

Sep 30 • 

Matt Klein

18:59

SOCIAL_Commentary_Vol.5

A reading of our memes — theorizing what they say about the zeitgeist — an expression of collective truths.

Sep 16 • 

Matt Klein

August 2024

SOCIAL_Commentary_Vol.4

A reading of our memes — theorizing what they say about the zeitgeist — an expression of collective truths.

Aug 26 • 

Matt Klein

10 Patterns from 400+ SXSW '25 Talk Submissions

What were the most unexpected themes?

Aug 12 • 

Matt Klein

July 2024

Making Sense of Culture Amidst Contradiction

Q&A with Matt Klein on creativity, studying culture, trust online, and AI

Jul 31 • 

Matt Klein

Interview with Rory Sutherland: Emotional Efficiency & Reframes

🎧 Listen or Read | Rory on good old ideas, economic BS, imagination, and solving the wrong problems

Jul 16 • 

Matt Klein

58:09

June 2024

Beware the Curators

Why Life Beyond Algorithmic Recommendations Requires Skepticism

Jun 22 • 

Matt Klein

Feeling Invisible Worlds: Spatial Computing, Haptics & A Future of Perception

In a future of omnipresent, spatial computing, what happens when the virtual and physical further blur and our perception of touch is also manipulated…

Jun 11 • 

Matt Klein