In this new BAG TALK episode, Elizaveta Federmesser is joined by writer, artist, and ex-professor of graphic and type design Charlotte Rohde.

They are talking about:

* aspirationally blending in

* The joys of bars with rude German bartenders

* performative chic-ness conundrum

* eating apples, literally not TM.

* similarities of audible copyright and selling air rights

* Diane, Olivia, and Yasmin are virtually the same names

* Work attire (suit and tie) is the closest thing we have to a carnival costume

* respect farming with blazers

* the TM mode

* bootleg words

* the Industry

* word circulation, betting, and semantic market speculation

* word value speculation

* Make America Chic Again

* Law TM

* Suffix of the day is -mining

* trendforcasters’ insider trading

* polygamy and the polymarket in Berlin

* choosing your poison

* Business Advice for Girls

* economics as art

* choosing between an Oscar and a Nobel Prize and ultimately getting both

* EGOT+NP

* Peace Prize pros and cons

* type as a proxy for public performance of self

* Gill Sans “i” is giving a Noguchi Sculpture

* New Elle Woods

* color grading for the subcultures

* “I don’t wanna be that whiny”

* choosing to be problematic

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Elizaveta Federmesser is a cultural strategist and researcher. She is also the founder and editor of BAGMAG, an independent cultural research publication distributed internationally by Antenne Books London. Elizaveta hosts BAG TALK, a video and audio interview series on fashion, media theory, and internet culture, and works as a brand and culture strategist and creative consultant for organizations. She has presented original cultural research as an invited keynote speaker for Chanel's European Head Office and guest-lectured on fashion, AI, and media theory at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

Charlotte Rohde is a prominent German artist, type designer, and writer based between Berlin and Amsterdam. Her multidisciplinary work explores language as a central medium, bridging fine art and applied typography with themes of hyperfemininity, pop culture, feminist discourse, and economic systems.

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In this new BAG TALK episode, Elizaveta Federmesser is joined by Al Hassan Elwan, a writer, creative consultant, and instigator of POSTPOSTPOST: a publishing project spanning Instagram carousels, print books, film, and talks that has become a reference point in online discussions of meme culture, the avant-garde, and internet aesthetics.

Following the release of POSTPOSTPOST vol. 2 The Real, the second PPP publication for which Elizaveta contributed an essay, “Poser Potential”, they meet at a park bench in Amsterdam for a new video special. And to touch some grass.They talk scroll hijack, gesamdkunstvibe, manifestos as emotional manipulation, why nobody wants to WERK anymore, Chimpanzee posting, edgelording for the better future, Madonna face, a total work of art and a total piece of s**t, the Odyssey, black holes, press juncet, Dirk Bag supremacy, the limit-experience, being on the chin of Bianca Censori, memes by Jean-Luc Godard: the proto-text-overlay, amaizing use of free will, being Trump for a day, variations of nothing and the ultimate nightmare blunt rotation.

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Elizaveta Federmesser is a cultural strategist and researcher. She is also the founder and editor of BAGMAG, an independent cultural research publication distributed internationally by Antenne Books London. Elizaveta hosts BAG TALK, a video and audio interview series on fashion, media theory, and internet culture, and works as a brand and culture strategist and creative consultant for organizations. She has presented original cultural research as an invited keynote speaker for Chanel's European Head Office and guest-lectured on fashion, AI, and media theory at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.Al Hassan Elwan is the founder of POSTPOSTPOST (PPP), a publishing project spanning Instagram carousels, print books, film, and talks that has become a reference point in online discussions of meme culture, the avant-garde, and internet aesthetics.

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In a new BAG TALK episode, host Elizaveta Federmesser meets writer and creator of the @kardashian_kolloquium MJ Corey. They meet ahead of MJ’s book launch, Dekostructing The Kardashians, in Paris, for a special breaking-of-the-fourth-wall: we go video, baby!

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Flaneuring at Cafe Vivienne, ladies discuss the prophecy of Walter Benjamin, the Kardashians’ relationship with failure and death, the secret of Dante’s Comedy for a successful media cycle, Las Vegas Strip VS Paris Burlesque, face lifts, ultimate doll vibes, why The Artist and The Mannequin birthed the IT-girl, Kendall conspiracy, and how reading will save the world! Also mentioned Charli XCX, Susan Sontag, Addison Rae, Camille Paglia, Agnes Varda, Edward Bernays, Marc Jacobs, Bianca Censori, Alex Quicho, Mariana Fernandez Mora, Kanye, Caroline Weber, Jean Baudrillard, and the OG: Marshal Mcluhan.

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In this new BAG TALK episode, Elizaveta Federmesser is joined by writer, editor and curator, Claire Marie Healy, whose Girlhood Studies project explores how visual culture shapes the experiences of young women. Following the recent MoMu show GIRLS: On Boredom, Rebellion and Being In-Between, we talk girlhood as research practice; Kirsten Dunst filmography as a spectrum; fairytales; Ariana Grande in a hoodie with nails out; the path from the safety of the childhood bedroom and all its tchotchkes to the dark forest of cerebral girl theory and projected femininity; why horizontal stripes are girlhood coded; the safety blanket of the tumblr feed and the old hard drive gold rush; screencap culture and the magic of yellow subtitles; the power of teen print; “get ready with me” choreography; and dropping dead and gorgeous.

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Happy Chinese New Year! The Year of the Fire Horse!

In this holiday special, BAG TALK host Elizaveta Federmesser talks to Jiayun Yan (JY), a scholar of digital cultures specializing in internet phenomena and subcultures in China, and founder of 996Doomscroll, a new media platform on all things China-core. As a fellow fake bag connoisseur, JY weights in on Chinesemaxxing, holistic Guangzhou shopping experience, Martian Language, rural kitch, institutional boyfriend frenzy, counterfeits and character building, night malls, the P brand: Loro Piana, on tiering the gods and fortunetelling, freedom of speech, reducted epstein files, soft madness, collective anonymity on the censored web, on why you need a stunt double to be popular, larping as a bureaucrat for romantic gain, and why badminton is hot at the moment.

And don’t forget to stay quantum, babe!

Blessings!

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New Christmas special episode of BAG TALK with Elizaveta Federmesser featuring Adina Glickstein, writer, researcher, and editor at Spike. We talk: DENVER AIRPORT ART + HYPERSTITIONS + MARKET ROMANTICS + POLITICAL DANCE FLOOR + CULTS AND MADONNA + JUNGLE VIA CCRU + WORD OPTIMIZATION + LLM + BIO POP + BAG POP

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“So, then we went into the pit.”

Welcome to the quantum brain. For this episode, I am joined by Günseli Yalcinkaya, writer and researcher. She has recently published an essay, “The Internet Enters Its Age of Aquarius”, at Spike, where she talks about how quantum principles are reflected in culture today. Following her recent trip to Japan, we met at mine to discuss:

* Ankle bracelet politics

* Paris Hilton’s network state

* Why the multiverse has no "edge"

* What is weird now

* Being mistaken for a theorist

* Self-fictioning and failing

* Being trapped under the slimy glass ceiling of the AI slop

* Quantum oil

* Aura, corrupted by boyfriends

* The smell of the Large Hadron Collider

* Cryptids

* Japan’s everyday UFOs

And, of course, the Bag TSA Check.

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What is Cringe=Sublime if not the sacred meeting the profane?I have been following Ruba Al-Sweel, a writer, curator, and artist, for a while and always felt a sort of idiosyncratic kinship with her work – perhaps even idea-syncratic. Whether it was a text snippet of shared sentiments on her stories or a short documentary about TikTok fortunetellers, Ruba’s work and ideas propose a world I feel I can relate to. On the last day of summer, I finally had the pleasure of speaking with her. We chat about: face power; camera as an archangel; Lana’s choice and the crocodile man; big thinkers and men gossip; All Fours by Miranda July; lip tints; iconoclasm; text as the ultimate image; and stretching the band-aid on your camera phone.More at:

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What is a girl if not cringe meeting the sublime? That was my pitch for Alex Quicho - artist, angel, agent, writer - to come to the BAG TALK. This episode is one for the books. We talk Pop, Girl Theory, Fail VS Iteration, lipgloss dominance, a little bit of capitalism theory (just a little, you know), Madonna living the Jesus lifestyle, and why Video Game by Lana Del Rey is our genesis story.

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God is dead. Here comes lithium water! In this new episode of Bag Talk, I speak to a PhD researcher and writer, Anastasia Kubrak, about her lithium, wellness, and culture-related interests. We talk Lana del Ray and soda drinks, Baden-Baden in your pocket, bubbles conspiracy, lithium water resorts as gambling hotspots, larping as an intellectual at a boutique spa, the delusional aspiration to save the world with fizzy beverages, Mad Men last episode impact, cultural context of energy, and the snake oil trajectory of water therapy.

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