Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Maybe the emotional payoff of a fixed narrative is too ingrained in audiences to be eliminated. It certainly hasn’t been easy for Hustwit to adapt “Eno”to the commercial conventions of streaming and DVDs.
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emotional versus commercial - the perennial butting of heads?
Developing taste is an exercise in vulnerability: it requires you to trust your instincts and preferences, even when they don’t align with current trends or the tastes of your peers. Because while having taste is cool, taste itself reflects a certain type of uncool earnestness – a commitment to one’s own obsessions and quirks.
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
we believe in each other’s collective smallness
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
The proliferation of “curating” speaks of a generation anxious for authority and authorship, and also for meaning.
- Lou Stoppard, Writer
Eichhorn responds to the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's 1970s concept of "cultural capital": the fluency in forms of high culture that could bestow social status and help members of elite classes to identify one another.
Cultural capital is knowing that cashmere is a more aspirational fabric than cotton or that a Jackson Pollock painting is much mor
... See moreThis attitude of “we don’t do that sort of thing around here” can be seen another way: as excessive attachment to the supposed rules of the game.
Be Sincere—Not Serious
The core idea is to explore the emotional dimension of songs and pieces of music by putting together a judicious sequence of personal narratives related to hearing or performing the work in focus.
About Soul Music BBC
"Essentialism is a disciplined, systematic approach for determining where our highest point of contribution lies, then making execution of those things almost effortless". Do the important, effortlessly. If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will.