Archive - Lore Oxford

A prompt generator for imagining the minutiae of the everyday in 2050 🔮

An experiment in making it easier to imagine the future.

Mar 17 •

November 2022

Scarier than fiction

This halloween, horror was other people.

Nov 11, 2022 •

July 2022

It's a chaotic world. We're just living in it (for now)

Headed into the apocalypse equipped with little more than some Minions memes and the urge to YOLO.

Jul 26, 2022 •

June 2022

AI is giving hot boyfriend energy

Great convo and cursed memes? Yeesss!

Jun 21, 2022 •

The web3 urge to fix all of the world’s problems with a DAO

An optimistic stance on the role DAOs could play in the future of philanthropy, shared values, and generally wanting the world to be better.

Jun 7, 2022 •

May 2022

Julia Fox is making celebrity media joyful again

At a supposed ‘peak celebrity’, she is everything we could have asked for and more.

May 31, 2022 •

February 2022

The role of satire in NFT aesthetics (3/3)

Part III of ‘Why do NFTs look like that?’

Feb 1, 2022 •

January 2022

The role of sincerity in NFT aesthetics (2/3)

Part II of ‘Why do NFTs look like that?’. A few years from now, who knows where NFTs will be. But what’ll we remember of their sudden entry into mass…

Jan 24, 2022 •

Why do NFTs look like that? (1/3)

A few years from now, who knows where NFTs will be. But what’ll we remember of their sudden entry into mass digital culture? And why? Some thoughts on…

Jan 18, 2022 •

January 2021

What the best of 2020 internet says about how digital culture is evolving

Even in lockdown, it feels like there are never enough hours in the day to write about all the things that deserve attention and analysis from across…

Jan 23, 2021 •

October 2020

Issue #18: some speculation on what the next 10 years of Instagram could look like

A couple of weeks back, Instagram turned 10, which made me feel really old and further exacerbated the already destabilising weirdness of pandemic time.

Oct 20, 2020 •

Issue #17: Adulting influencers, photo dumps, and gonzo journalism born on social

A sporadic download of things I like from around the internet, intellectualised for your enjoyment.

Oct 2, 2020 •

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