Status Limbo | Theory No. 27
Global status is fixed. It’s only situational status that you can grab and control.
Oren Klaff • Pitch Anything
Being regarded as authentic is a function of others’ evaluation of your performance. But if everything is in upheaval, then those others doing the evaluating have few points of reference. Because the network society is global in character, identity is constantly being contested and threatened from all sides. The freedom of the paranoid, just like t
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That’s where status comes in.
Eugene Wei • Status Games: Engineering Scarcity in a World of Abundance
The great ambition of modern societies has been to institute a comprehensive reversal of the equation, to strip away both inherited privilege and inherited under-privilege in order to make rank dependent on individual achievement – which has primarily come to mean financial achievement. Status now rarely depends on an unchangeable identity handed d
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