PATTERN RECOGNITION | Beth Bentley | Substack

Is the algorithm making us LESS stylish, LESS interesting, LESS...ourselves?

"We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us." - Marshall McLuhan, 1964.

Jan 24, 2024 • Beth Bentley

BONFIRE OF THE INANITIES: enshallowfication

Depth is the new hotness. But we're going to have to fight for it.

Feb 24 • Beth Bentley

So you wanna be a THINKER now? Good luck with that.

We learned what to think, not how to think

Jan 14 • Beth Bentley

UNCERTAIN PEOPLE BUY MORE STUFF

Manufactured Inadequacy

Jun 13, 2025 • Beth Bentley

WISDOM SIGNALING

New fear unlocked

Jun 3, 2025 • Beth Bentley

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WELL-TRODDEN ELEGANCE

Jun 7, 2024 • Beth Bentley

WISDOM SIGNALING

Jun 3, 2025 • Beth Bentley

OVER THE INFLUENCE

Apr 18, 2024 • Beth Bentley

THE PERSONALITY INDUSTRY: buying yourself into being

Jun 9, 2025

The Cultural Omnivore

THE CULTURAL OMNIVORE

let's get harder to categorise

Feb 13 • Beth Bentley

The Cultural Omnivore // Colin Nagy

004: it's Instagram + Threads' brand strategy boss

Feb 6 • Beth Bentley

The Cultural Omnivore // Anna Newton

003: A modern publishing powerhouse, writing to us from the British seaside

Jan 30 • Beth Bentley

The Cultural Omnivore // Pamela Dow

002: Dispatches from the deeply mysterious, deeply chic heart of British public life

Jan 16 • Beth Bentley

NEW SERIES: The Cultural Omnivore

001: Let's get harder to categorise

Jan 9 • Beth Bentley

Your (un)official in-flight mag for wherever consumer culture's heading next. Expect turbulence.