We discuss three articles that did the rounds recently.
Mitch Therieau's "Vibe, Mood, Energy or, Bust-time Reenchantment": https://www.thedriftmag.com/vibe-mood-energy/
Christian Lorentzen's "Authorial Fragility and the Enemies of Poptimism": https://www.gawker.com/culture/authorial-fragility-the-enemies-of-poptimism
and Ann Manov's "Has Fuccboi Killed Literature?": https://unherd.com/2022/02/has-fuccboi-killed-literature/
Talking vibes, vibe shifts, the internet as spectral realm, technopolitan occultism, critics vs fandom, cringe accelerationism, books reviews about discourse about books, rendering terrible online language in literature and more.
