Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
musicto - Surprising Playlists for Curious Listeners
musicto.com
In needing to maximize hedonic value for as many people as possible, a healthy cultural ecosystem must produce artworks of both relatively simple and complex stimuli. Complex stimuli preferred by experienced and educated individuals are alienating to less experienced and educated individuals, and simple stimuli are not entertaining to more... See more
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
this speaks to the levle of complexity in track selection but perhaps more to the complexity of the contextual exchange - cmpare go with spirit to a single sentence summary with no description - significant difference level of complexity and input required
Back to the Futures
leaflet.pub
“Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign.
But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Rehumanization: Putting the ‘human’ in human rights
100 of the Best Book Covers of 2024 – PRINT Magazine
printmag.com
Design Input and
Cultural capital is the knowledge and proper performance of certain high-status conventions that identify an individual as a member of a high-status group.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
number of collab lists made and published is an indicator of high cultural status within musicto - along with node membership and collection contribution and collective membership
In my early 30s I began to consider the mythic as a novel ‘aesthetic’. Calling myself “a wizard” was infinitely preferable to calling myself a “thought leader”, a “futurist” or a “consultant”. The archetype of wizard was much more enlivening and expansive; the mythic quality to it that appealed to me. And still does.
foxwizard ☾ • 🌚 How to Dispel the “Dark Cloud”
