# cultural research (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover cultural research. Page: Feed: --- ## [Where the Green Argument Went](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/where-the-green-argument-went) _2026-08-18 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ Vinted stopped asking shoppers to care about the planet and started offering to clear their closets. ## [Spotify Made a Rule About Faces](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/spotify-made-a-rule-about-faces) _2026-08-16 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ The AI Persona badge classifies identity and leaves the music alone ## [Where Literacy Went](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/where-literacy-went) _2026-08-14 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ Reading did not stop. It moved, and it took your brand's job with it. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211183215/aa4c15ad20459a6654f177bbe0d70d47.mp3) ## [Mess Is the New Status Symbol](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/mess-is-the-new-status-symbol) _2026-08-12 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ Why the culture of imperfection is more controlled than it looks ## [The Dating App Is Escaping the Phone](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/the-dating-app-is-escaping-the-phone) _2026-08-11 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ Singles are returning to bars, dinners, and pottery classes. The platforms are following them there. ## [Culture Is Not Your Audience](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/culture-is-not-your-audience) _2026-08-11 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ Terence McKenna warned people about culture. Companies inherited the warning and the blind spot with it. ## [The B Movie Was a Risk Model](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/the-b-movie-was-a-risk-model) _2026-08-10 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ Studios used to finance uncertainty. Now they increasingly buy it after someone else proves it. ## [The Standardized Self](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/the-standardized-self) _2026-08-09 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ As machines enter hiring, applicants learn to speak in the categories the system already knows. ## [The Last Private Room](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/the-last-private-room) _2026-08-07 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ The automobile was once a place to disappear. Connected vehicles are making that privacy harder to preserve. ## [The Process Around the Model](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/the-process-around-the-model) _2026-08-05 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ Why cultural research needs more than a better prompt ## [Know before it drops (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/F9adBbO8rMoH) _2026-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a show, artist, genre or rocket and get notified before release ## [Wittgenstein’s Lion in the Model](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/wittgensteins-lion-in-the-model) _2026-08-03 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ How cultural research mistakes fluent representation for understanding ## [The Girlboss Is Dead Again](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/the-girlboss-is-dead-again) _2026-08-02 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ Female ambition has not disappeared. It is now rewarded when the work stays out of view. ## [The Limits of Brand Consistency](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/the-limits-of-brand-consistency) _2026-08-02 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ Fizzion can enforce Coca-Cola’s rules. It cannot model the associations forming outside them. ## [Designing for Intuition](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/designing-for-intuition) _2026-07-31 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ What a synthesizer can teach us about intelligence work ## [When Archives Limit Cognition](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/when-archives-limit-cognition) _2026-07-29 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ Oral history reveals the blind spots not included in written archives. ## [The Year Data Centers Became Nuclear](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/the-year-data-centers-became-nuclear) _2026-07-28 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ The backlash is about what happens when the deployment of data centers outruns the institutions built to govern it. ## [After the Experience Economy](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/after-the-experience-economy) _2026-07-27 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ Recognition is starting to do the work spectacle used to do. ## [The System Behind the Pint](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/the-system-behind-the-pint) _2026-07-27 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ The Van Leeuwen ruling shows why the process behind an identity can matter as much as the finished package. ## [Maine’s Narrative Prior](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/maines-narrative-prior) _2026-07-25 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ How one surprising election hardened into a rule about the future. ## [The Scale Problem in Intelligence](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/the-scale-problem-in-intelligence) _2026-07-24 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ Good Intelligence Must Reflect on Unit of Analysis ## [AI QA That Opens Fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/lBVWZjvzn3rU) _2026-07-24 · **Sponsored**_ Runs browser QA, files issues with repro evidence, and opens fix PRs. ## [The Collapse of the Shared World](https://analyzingtrends.substack.com/p/the-collapse-of-the-shared-world) _2026-07-18 · Analyzing Trends · Analyzing Trends_ We Lost the Plot of Stewardship