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Highlights from Hyperreality, if you’re new or catching up.
We write to make sense of things – sometimes before they make sense, often after. Hyperreality is a record of that process: fragments, essays, letters from the edge of the real. It’s less a destination than a lens. You’re invited to look through it with us.
If you’d like to get familiar with Hyperreality, here are some of our best and most-read letters:
As If It Matters / Metamodernism and the Art of Hopeful Uncertainty
This essay explores metamodernism as a cultural and philosophical response to the limitations of postmodern irony and detachment, embracing a hopeful yet self-aware oscillation between sincerity and skepticism. It argues that in an age of digital unreality and epistemological anxiety, acting as if meaning, truth, and connection still matter becomes not just necessary, but profoundly human.
Notes on Modern Friendship: When a Girl’s Girl has Frenemies
Roséline explores how once-effortless female friendships have grown fraught in the age of social media, where comparison, envy, and curated identities strain authentic connection. Through personal reflection and feminist theory, she argues that genuine solidarity among women is not sentimental but strategic – a necessary response to the systemic forces that seek to divide them.
Exploring Elsa Peretti’s Design Aesthetic Through Her Iconic Homes
Elsa Peretti’s legacy extends far beyond her iconic designs for Tiffany & Co., encompassing a deeply personal and visionary act of cultural preservation through her decades-long restoration of the Catalonian village of Sant Martí Vell – where architecture, memory, and artistic identity fused into a living, inhabited work of art. Her homes, like her jewellery, reveal a philosophy of quiet opulence and tactile intimacy, offering an enduring portrait of a woman who curated beauty not as spectacle, but as a way of being.
Confessions of a Hypochondriac
In a candid reflection on anxiety, wellness, and longevity, Roséline reveals how her meticulous health rituals evolved from fear-driven habits into a balanced investment in a life worth living. Blending personal stories with science and timeless wisdom, she invites us to rethink health not as a race for perfection but as a journey toward presence, pleasure, and meaningful connection.
The Wisdom of TikTok?
As TikTok turns philosophy into soundbites and self-help slogans, P. questions what gets lost when complexity is commodified for mass consumption. This essay unpacks how viral wisdom risks becoming a hollow echo of real thought – trading rigorous reflection for feel-good shortcuts in our pursuit of meaning.
On Baggage, Emotional and Otherwise
What if the things we hold onto aren’t just clutter, but quiet echoes of our past? In this introspective essay, Roséline unpacks both physical belongings and emotional weight, tracing the journey toward letting go, healing old wounds, and rediscovering a long-lost lightness of being.
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