The Ascendancy of the Feminine Daemonic

More Thoughts on the Taylor Swift Hyperobject

I’ve been looking deeper into Taylor Swift — as artist, feminine archetype, and hyperobject — and reflecting on what her pop culture domination tells us about our time. I’ve gone so far as to listen to most of Swift’s corpus including her latest, The Tortured Poets Department, and read all 19,000 words of Tavi Gevinson’s hybrid work of cultural criticism and fictionalized memoir, Fan Fiction: A Satire, which