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Renaissance Fairs and the Post-Work Society
Why renaissance fairs may offer a real model for community formation after labor loses its central place in life
22 hrs ago • Gene Botkin
Make Something With Someone
Why shared creation may matter more than individual fame in the Age of AI
Apr 6 • Gene Botkin
The Jury That Put the Feed on Trial
Why the age of addictive design may be nearing its bill-collection phase
Apr 3 • Gene Botkin

March 2026

The AI Pastor Is a Dead End
Why a machine can mimic the sermon and still miss the shepherd
Mar 30 • Gene Botkin
Why Artists Will Build the Next Real Communities
Economic communities are fading. Creative ones are quietly rising in their place.
Mar 23 • Gene Botkin
Your Job Is Not Disappearing All at Once
The slower, stranger way AI changes work
Mar 19 • Gene Botkin
Cybernetics and Internet Aesthetics
On Cybernetaestheticism
Mar 12 • Gene Botkin
Why Digital Clones Are About to Change How We Trust People
Trust in the Age of Synthetic Humans
Mar 5 • Gene Botkin

February 2026

Virtue and Veblen Goods
Luxury Marketing Tactics and the Restoration of Virtue
Feb 26 • Gene Botkin
Old Timer Rock & Roll
The Sociology of Gamestop Clerks
Feb 19 • Gene Botkin
Parvini Is Right to Hate the Chuds
Toward a more competent Right
Feb 12 • Gene Botkin
The Creative Class and the Right Must Align
The Shared Need for Social Capital and the Coming Cultural Renaissance
Feb 5 • Gene Botkin
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