Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
Sharing tastes forges social bonds between people (i.e. bridges), while discrepancies in taste create barriers between people (i.e. fences).
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
literally what we are doing in collaborative playlists
Belinda Parmar OBE
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“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”
Maria Flynn • Opinion | The A.I. Economy Will Make Jobs More Human - The New York Times
It's about humanization. And I can't think of another way to imagine how we're going to get out of the crisis of racial hatred if not through the will to humanize." 7
Lessons and Lingerings
Empathy and
The most human part of humanity is not our animal instincts nor our computer-like rationality, but our mutual social creation of meanings and values around arbitrary choices.
A 2023 Look-back: the internet dies, etc.
The 1,000 True Fans Theory works for monetization but not for social impact. Your personal bubble is merely a business model; it’s not culture until your work breaks into other bubbles.
A 2023 Look-back: the internet dies, etc.
The rare disease that stops people from feeling fear
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Fear
Is Your Podcast Video Unwatchable? Try These Fixes.
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The culture industry describes companies and creators who forge new products and art forms where commercial success hinges on the future conventionality of those ideas.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
we are not part of the culture industry as we are not looking for commercial success