Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
Wayback Machine
web.archive.orgFabrice Bellard - read this
Aesthetically sophisticate individuals are likely to become cosmopolitan — i.e. they understand their culture of origin as arbitrary and become open-minded towards alternatives. Individuals with fewer aesthetic experiences are likely to remain provincial : They believe that only their culture of origin is correct, which closes their minds to other... See more
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
In a completely ultra-poptimist world, there would be no available incentives to create novel, complex, or ambiguous works of art. We would have to rely on artist altruism or insanity.
Culture: An Owner's Manual • Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
Shocker huh!
All of this sounds like co-creating a world more curious and kind (and a future less grim). I’m so down for this.
foxwizard ☾ • 🌚 How to Dispel the “Dark Cloud”
love this language for musicto foundation
Mindy Weisberger (@laminda.bsky.social)
bsky.app
I think of this a lot - and not necessarily in the “oh how it evolved and changed over time” but in the - I wonder what his conversation was like around the idea when it only looked like this…
Chartmetric Year in Music 2023
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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