Archive - The Performance Age

Trust Collapsed, Now What? The Book That Makes Sense of Our Digital Chaos

How Martin Gurri's "Revolt of the Public" explains why outrage dominates and institutions fail

Apr 29 •

Joshua Hathcock

Parsing Perception

How Language Models Translate Text into Thought

Apr 22 •

Joshua Hathcock

Welcome to The Performance Age

A space for slow thinking in a reactionary world.

Apr 12 •

Joshua Hathcock

Reality-Reaction Inversion: Why Feeling Beats Fact in the New Town Square

Before we know what happened, we know how to feel about it.

Apr 8 •

Joshua Hathcock

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