Douglas McLennan, AJ Chronicles: This Week in the Great Culture Shift, Diacritical, 24 January 2026
It’s probably a hazard of the job, but I tend to look at culture systemically. It’s not just the algorithms that steer our attention, but the often-unseen infrastructure we constructed that determines a large part of our culture diet: the systems that shape orchestras, theatres, dance companies, museums, the practical nuts-and-bolts and often mundane practicalities that determine what’s possible and what isn’t. The media landscape (or lack thereof), and the contracts and copyrights and rules that make some sort of order out of it. That make some things possible. And some things not.