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I like to call this fusion “the inspiresting.” Stylistically, the inspiresting is earnest and contrived. It is smart but not quite intellectual, personal but not sincere, jokey but not funny. It is an aesthetic of populist elitism. Politically, the inspiresting performs a certain kind of progressivism, as it is concerned with making the world a better place, however vaguely.
What Was the TED Talk? - The Drift
Issue 6
Phrack issues are released irregularly, and like academic publications issues are grouped into volumes. Each issue comprises a number of Philes: stand-alone text files of very technical or counter-cultural content. Philes are submitted by members of the hacker underground community, and are reviewed by the editors.
Having an article published in Phrack is seen as prestigious by hackers, and often allowed access to more sources of information.
Phrack - Wikipedia
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And if it could convene around it a genuinely interested community of readers, that audience’s reading practices would validate and prove the continued existence of rich, pleasurable, and deeply retrograde ideas about how and why literary culture operates. In short, the magazine and its readers could thumb their collective nose at the powerful-but-not-yet-quite-successfully-totalizing structure of the culture industry around them. However, in order for its mocking critique to be successful, this contrary venture had to operate within—not apart from—the mainstream.
Project MUSE - What We Talk About; When We Talk About: The New Yorker
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