# Caterina Fake We live in the Technic, but long for a life of depth and meaning. Where is our culture going? Can we save our souls? What about AI? Will poetry be erased? These are among the topics explored in this newsletter. Page: Feed: --- ## [A Morally Injurious World](https://caterina.substack.com/p/being-moral-in-the-morally-injurious) _2026-05-04 · Caterina Fake_ “I do so many immoral things every day!” was a particularly striking confession made by Jia Tolentino, the New Yorker writer, on a recent notorious podcast conversation with Nadja Spiegelman on The Opinon podcast from the New York Times. It’s also true that most of us some of the same morally indefensible things Tolentino does, according to herself, such as ordering from Amazon, going to Ballet… ## [The Free For All](https://caterina.substack.com/p/the-free-for-all) _2025-06-13 · Caterina Fake_ To convince you to read Ian Nairn, the great sui generis British architectural critic, I give you the front cover and back cover blurbs of the re-released Outrage, which details Nairn’s voyage through Britain’s suburbia—what he calls, “Subtopia.” He defines this as “a mean and middle state, neither town nor country, an even spread of abandoned aerodromes and fake rusticity, wire fences, traffic… ## [Being Right in a Wrong World](https://caterina.substack.com/p/writing-for-an-air-conditioned-data) _2025-06-10 · Caterina Fake_ Or, being right in a wrong world ## [What Would Herzog Do?](https://caterina.substack.com/p/what-would-herzog-do) _2023-11-02 · Caterina Fake_ When I was given the chance to host the live on stage conversation with Werner Herzog for City Arts and Lectures in San Francisco I was barely able to believe it. ## [W. Kamau Bell on the Ingenious Podcast](https://caterina.substack.com/p/w-kamau-bell-on-the-ingenious-podcast) _2023-10-25 · Caterina Fake_ Kamau has learned a lot from Bruce Lee! I did too. ## [Dave Eggers on the Ingenious Podcast](https://caterina.substack.com/p/dave-eggers-on-ingenious-176) _2023-09-27 · Caterina Fake_ A podcast in which we discuss the human prerogative to create art, AI and its discontents, 826 Valencia–and read from his latest book. ## [Unputdownable Manga, Woebot & More!](https://caterina.substack.com/p/unputdownable-manga-woebot-and-more) _2019-03-08 · Caterina Fake_ The latest update! ## [STE launch + Getting Started](https://caterina.substack.com/p/ste-launch-getting-started) _2019-02-25 · Caterina Fake_ Greetings ## [A Newsletter about Courage and Ingenuity](https://caterina.substack.com/p/coming-soon) _2019-01-03 · Caterina Fake_ We live in the Technic, but long for a life of depth and meaning. ## [Your 24/7 AI Media Buyer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Ucd8xAiWAaKM) _2019-01-03 · **Sponsored**_ Finds placement, geo, and funnel leaks and proposes fixes you approve ## [Measure, Hölderlin & Tehching Hsieh](https://caterina.substack.com/p/measure-hlderlin-and-tehching-hsieh) _2001-03-08 · Caterina Fake_ Is there measure on earth? There is None.