it's the apocalypse and i'm writing you a letter

welcome to our correspondence ☺

maybe 2020 was the year we loved frogs because frogs absorb their environments through their skins. like them, we’ve found ourselves porous to the world, taking in atmospheric nutrients and toxins alike. do you ever feel yourself changing and you can’t control it?

welcome to under the influence. in bi-weekly newsletters, i’ll be exploring the on- and offline effects of our supremely strange present: dystopia, hysteria, flashes of ecstacy, the contortions of time and space that occur when we mostly live online. the first official dispatch will cover the Starbucks Pistachio Latte, the 1995 queer cult classic film The Doom Generation, and the comfort/death dialectic.

in addition to looking to the future, i also want to think about how we got here, and where we are now. i’ll be comparing and entwining media from the past and the very present— current events and cult classics, deep dives and digital bumper stickers— to explore and challenge this late capitalist hellscape. are you ready to hold hands with eternity?