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This San Francisco Library Collects Print Materials You Were Never Meant to See
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Sarah Jessee
Mar 22
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Megan Prelinger (left) shows a small selection of 'The Hacker Quarterly' while her husband, Rick (right), scans the stacks at the Prelinger Library in San Francisco on Mar. 13, 2024. (Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)
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Sarah Jessee
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Megan Prelinger (left) shows a small selection of 'The Hacker Quarterly' while her husband, Rick (right), scans the stacks at the Prelinger Library in San Francisco on Mar. 13, 2024. (Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)
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Meet the Only NYC Tailor on Wheels
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So the first one is this Japanese novelist, Junichiro Tanizaki’s 1933 essay, “In Praise of Shadows.” And this is a very small book, or a very long essay, in which Tanizaki kind of muses on his own taste, and why he designed his house in a certain way, and why he chooses food in a certain way or installs lamps in a certain way. And the point at whic... See more
‘The Ezra Klein Show’ • How to Discover Your Own Taste
Bodies, Forgiveness, and Tiny Beautiful Things: A Conversation with Cheryl Strayed
Jane Ratcliffejaneratcliffe.substack.com
In the modern aspiration economy, taste is not given. It’s not a passive play of social differentiation. It’s an activity that is continuously developed, cultivated, and refined. It’s an activity that includes objects (e.g. sneakers, coffee beans, food), other participants (e.g. sneakerheads, menswear forums, friends, a local coffee barista), speci
... See moreAna Andjelic • The Business of Aspiration: How Social, Cultural, and Environmental Capital Changes Brands
Creativity, point of view, taste, curatorial acumen and stylistic savvy are new units of consumption. Keywords are group buying and shared ownership.
Ana Andjelic • Luxury x Culture
