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Scenes with Simon

Simon de la Rouviere

Exploring ideas across culture, technology, society, life, and creativity in a monthly newsletter and occasional long-form essays. Studying scenes to make sense of the world.

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Latest Issues

A Trip Through the Venice Biennale, Interregnums, and Protocol Art

Welcome to Scenes With Simon. A monthly newsletter about many things. This month is about Venice, Art, and Protocol Art.


I love art. Reality can be arranged in so many ways, and the power of art is to ask us to pay deeper attention...

14 days ago
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A Roadway Design Detour Into Protocol Resolution and When To Do Nothing

Welcome to Scenes With Simon. A monthly newsletter about many things. This month is about roads, protocol resolution, ZIRP, and plotting.


L’Enfant had a vision: 🙌~~::CROSS STREETS::~~🙌

Before cars, maybe, this was a good idea for...

2 months ago
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How to Be Illegible In The Age of Slop

Welcome to Scenes With Simon. A monthly newsletter about many things. This month is about being a creator today, minimal legible forms, and compound culture.


The worst slop, to me, is low-effort creative work that’s marked by its at...

3 months ago
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This Essay Shouldn't Go Viral

Welcome to Scenes With Simon. A monthly newsletter about many things. This month is about bringing back the midlist of culture: power-laws, culture, antimemes, information ecologies, and going offline.


Culture today has two contradi...

4 months ago
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A Long Drive Back to Non-Algo Time

Welcome to Scenes With Simon. A monthly newsletter about many things. This month is about algorithms, boredom, AI coding, seriousness, and aesthetics in the 21st century.


In December and January, while in South Africa, I drove a lot...

5 months ago
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