I've been obsessed with the Chaotic Academia aesthetic.

As institutional authority weakens and certainty feels suspect, this aesthetic legitimizes unfinished thinking, signaling seriousness without the false comfort of polish.

John Wilson's documentaries are a good reference point. Meandering, observational, odd. He directed a bunch of Bon Iver's recent music videos.

BRAT was this aesthetic in flyer form: fluorescent, underdesigned, intellectually overstimulated, like theory notes spilled across a club floor and stapled together five minutes before the deadline. So was Lorde's recent work: fish eye, chaos, her in a white shirt & jeans strutting the streets of NYC.