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crisis of taste,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Teen Subcultures Are Fading. Pity the Poor Kids.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/mireille-silcoffnytimes.comEverything we point to as “culture”—customs, traditions, fashions, and fads—exists as conventions.
W. David Marx • Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
The Hacking of Culture and the Creation of Socio-Technical Debt - Journal #146
e-flux.com
The upshot of taking mass culture seriously has been a growing awareness that much of what we call good taste is merely an aesthetic like any other.
time • Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste
Perversely, irony relies on some remains of cultural capital in order to coherently express its destructive message. If elevated beyond commentary and analysis to its own pedestal of artistic value, its essence become desacralization and the making trite of deep truths we might prefer to respect and conserve.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
The literary scholar Raymond Williams called culture “one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.”