LinkedIn and Metal

What Is LinkedIn?

William Davies | 19th September 2026

If social media of the 2010s was a “dissensus machine”, LinkedIn is the media technology exemplar of the 2020s, producing “gloopy consensus without effort”. Its hallmark is a “weird, syncopated prose style” that proliferates online: “a succession of Pinterest slogans combined into verse, that seems so eager to express its depths of humanity that you instantly question whether it really has any” (2,000 words)

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The Softness Of Metal

Keith Kahn-Harris | Psyche | 21st September 2026

For his final show, Ozzy sat on a bat-shaped throne and sang while racked with Parkinson’s. “When I first discovered Ozzy, metal bodies seemed like the embodiment of strength and virility. The tousled locks, the phallic guitar poses, the screams and the implausible vibrato. Who knew that metal could be a place where one of its most notorious stars could perform this achingly sad display of vulnerability” (2,500 words)