Articles Written by Team Members

And why does it matter? An introduction to McBling as a consumer aesthetic and a framework for reading early 2000s film through transmedia semiotic lenses.

Can an entire type of apple be slop? What does slop reveal about systems we call ‘aesthetics’? A case study of the Red Delicious apple.

A deep dive into "Factory Pomo", a short-lived style in the 1980s and 1990s associated with the transition into the Information Age and the integration of personal computing into our everyday lives.

Did Windows 10 have an aesthetic? A cursory look at the now-discontinued operating system as an "aesthetic object" and a eulogy for it.