{"id":7539,"date":"2020-07-03T02:39:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T02:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7539"},"modified":"2020-07-03T02:39:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T02:39:05","slug":"what-is-the-tiktok-subculture-dark-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7539","title":{"rendered":"What is the TikTok subculture Dark Academia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/30\/style\/dark-academia-tiktok.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/merlin_173799054_ec680644-169a-4f37-a57e-44719a006149-articleLarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>School may be out indefinitely, but on social media there\u2019s a thriving subculture devoted to the aesthetic of all things scholarly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The New York Times has an article answering the question,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/30\/style\/dark-academia-tiktok.html\">What is the TikTok subculture Dark Academia?<\/a> It describes a subculture that started on tumblr and evolved on TikTok and Instagram that values a tweedy academic aesthetic. Sort of Hogwarts meets humanism. Alas, just as the aesthetics of humanities academic culture becomes a thing, it gets superseded by <a href=\"https:\/\/aesthetics.fandom.com\/wiki\/Goblincore\">Goblincore<\/a> or does it just fade like a pressed flower.<\/p>\n<p>Now we need to start a retro Humanities Computing aesthetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School may be out indefinitely, but on social media there\u2019s a thriving subculture devoted to the aesthetic of all things scholarly. The New York Times has an article answering the question,\u00a0What is the TikTok subculture Dark Academia? It describes a subculture that started on tumblr and evolved on TikTok and Instagram that values a tweedy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is the TikTok subculture Dark Academia?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,11,27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging-culture","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-media-and-news","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7542,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions\/7542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}