This Fashion Startup Wants Your Taste to Make You Money

OMEN is creating a new digital marketplace where cultural capital can convert into a liquid asset.

Nov 25 • 

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Was the Future Meant to Look Like a PlayStation Ad?

SONY’s PlayStation 2 imagined a future where technology made us more in touch with ourselves, not less.

Nov 18 • 

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Subculture Never Died; You Just Stopped Looking For It

Proof of new-ness from a basement in Hong Kong.

Nov 11 • 

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What Can Rave Posters Reveal About a City?

From deindustrialization and decolonization, rave posters around the world trace how cities transform and reinvent themselves.

Nov 4 • 

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October 2025

The Return of Orientalism Chic

In the mid-2010s, Asian musicians once sought recognition among Western artists. A decade later, they’re making difference aspirational.

Oct 28 • 

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You Should Probably Stretch More

A new way to approach life in a “stuck” culture.

Oct 14 • 

Patrick Kho

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Raves at 200-Year-Old Heritage Sites

Digital Zine 1: Across Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Manila, electronic music events are being held at historic buildings. How and why did this…

Oct 7 • 

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September 2025

Grocery Shopping in the Apocalypse

What can pre-typhoon consumption in Hong Kong teach us about the end of the world?

Sep 30 • 

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Why Do Asian Brands Pretend to be Japanese?

A working theory on how aspirational consumption in Asia created faux Japanese brands like MINISO, Oishi, and Japan Home Center.

Sep 23 • 

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Enter: The Post-Manosphere

From Hong Kong to Dubai to Bali, male creators are scripting a life beyond the manosphere. But is it progress from what came before, or just another…

Sep 16 • 

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The Rise of the Traveling Third Space

Around the world, new communities are decoupling from space and traveling within cities to foster connection.

Sep 2 • 

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August 2025

Funding an Art Gallery With Satire and Mac and Cheese

N+ Museum, a guerilla gallery, is offering a bold proposition for how independent art can thrive against the industry’s commercialization.

Aug 26 • 

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