The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
These protections increase or sustain both direct and indirect monopoly rents by throwing up barriers to dilution.
David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Both the intellectual history of authenticity and the recent scholarship on how authenticity behaves in media and tourism settings are indicative of an irredeemable system of striving and false hope.
David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Instead, the advertiser must carve out a need or identify some hole in the world and make a reasonable argument that its product fills the void. The more ephemeral and abstract the thing is, the more postmodern the advertising can be because, ultimately, the goal of postmodern advertising is to elicit an emotion and attach the object to that emotio
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In To Save Everything, Click Here, Evgeny Morozov implores the reader to “inquire into how Facebook mediates the very conditions of authenticity, sometimes by erecting new barriers and constraints but, more often, by destroying them.”
David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
The value of direct monopoly rents works in degrees along a spectrum. If you sell a famous landmark, you’ll probably get a hefty chunk of change. Sell a house that is next to a nice park, and you will also see an increase in the price of the property, which is derived from your direct monopoly rent of being one of the few houses next to the park.
David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Another is to make them actually look and behave predictively unique. We see this forming online as entrepreneurs like Caroline Corrigan use hashtags not just to promote the store but to decide how it should look so it will be recognizable as something Brooklynites might want to go to.
David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
The first contradiction concerns the balance one must strike between the special qualities of an authentic thing, place, or experience and the necessity of packing it into a recognizable consumable.
David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
The safe, vapid art of this era did more to signal that a place was ready to be gentrified than to express any specific idea. Art-as-politics has been devastating for both politics and art.
David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
A legitimizing identity is directly related to a dominant force, usually the state. To identify as a “patriot,” with all its connotations, helps to legitimate the power of the state by indicating that there are people willing to die for its continued existence. A resistance identity also related to power but is usually forged in reaction to an inst
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