The punk subculture includes a diverse and widely known array of music, ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature, and film. Largely characterised by anti-establishment views, the promotion of individual freedom, and DIY ethics. The culture originated from punk rock.
Rewildpunk: The Counterculture AI Actually Needs
Punk took music back from the labels. Here’s how we take intelligence back from Silicon Valley.
Reflecting On a Few Very, Very Strange Years In Silicon Valley's Rape Culture
On rape culture in Silicon Valley and its subcultures: Rationalism, Effective Altruism, TPOT, and Vibecamp. Also the informal rules that dictate how women are allowed to talk about sexual violence.
Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution | Meaningness
How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them.
i am going to solve the cyberpunk discourse forever, part 2: the punks.
“Cyberpunk 2077,” they said, “isn’t really Punk. It’s a Corporate Product, made out of Corporate Greed. It completely Misses The Point of…
Guide to Incrementals/Defining the Genre | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Introduction to K-Punk, Vol. 3: English Language Version
Prior to the release of K-Punk, Vol. 3 — the third and final volume of Caja Negra’s Spanish translation of k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) R…
«Uno spazio di cura per la vita collettiva», Forte Prenestino, quarant’anni “occupati”
Il primo maggio del 1986 un eterogeneo gruppo di punk, comunisti, anarchici, femministe, rompeva il lucchetto della struttura militare di Roma per trasformarlo in un centro sociale. Nessun collettivo politico, ma solo un gruppo di soggettività che si ritrovano intorno al concetto di autogestione. Musica come bene comune, autoproduzione, utilizzo critico delle tecnologie, ambientalismo e transfemminismi sono i temi che lo attraversano da sempre. La cultura scelta come arma di contestazione lo hanno reso l’anima creativa del movimento
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The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology. Reading time: ~4 minute read | Published: Aug 18, 2026 | Updated: Sep 12, 2026
technological diversity
Technological diversity is the opposite of technological monoculture. It refers to the diversity of artifacts (software and hardware) as well as that of ideas, philosophies, paradigms, techniques, languages, mental models, etc.
Indian Culture | Ministry of Culture
About Indian CultureIndian culture, often labelled as a combination of several cultures, has been influenced by a history that is several millennia old, beginning with the Indus Valley civilization and other early cultural areas. Indian culture is one of the oldest and most unique cultures known across the globe. It has Indian culture is one of the oldest and most unique cultures known across the globe.
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transform…
Memes in Digital Culture
Taking “Gangnam Style” seriously: what Internet memes can tell us about digital culture.In December 2012, the exuberant video “Gangnam Style” became the fi
How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time
This crowd-curated digital movement is one of the most pertinent and explicit reactions to our particular slice of dystopian late capitalism.
Building a Culture of (Digital) Safety
Black culture is in a lot of ways synonymous with how internet culture exists writ large. From what is now described as “Gen-Z slang” (or as Black people have always known it, AAVE) to our methods of organizing (Black feminists starting hashtag activism and creating movements like #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, and #SayHerName) and even how we […]
Cultural Homogenization
Links about how our societal structures are contributing to the homogenization of culture.
Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same