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After Authenticity
The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
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Kids are not failing by wanting to be cottagecore or meatcore or this new preppy. It’s the culture available to them that is failing, by no longer being able to connect any of these categories with lived experience or social meaning. Kids, in all their blowzy creativity — the same creativity that invented movements from Romanticism to hippiedom to
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People do want some kind of artifact—some kind of physical totem of what they’re into—because music ultimately represents a culture that you want to align with.
SSENSE • On the Record with Apple Industrial Designer Eugene Whang
If you are reading this, you likely grew up in an era in which irony was the primary way of engaging with the world. Not only did it have to do with goods, but was (and continues to be) pervasive in interpersonal relations. Asserting one’s individuality and refusing group labels on principle is not unique to hipsters but can be seen in dozens of ot... See more
Toby Shorin • The Disbeliever's Guide to Authenticity
Teen Subcultures Are Fading. Pity the Poor Kids.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/mireille-silcoffnytimes.com"Live Players"
An exploration of cultural power dynamics, the decline of traditional gatekeepers, and the impact of technology on our interconnected world and individual agency.
static1.squarespace.comIf you’re thinking about it from a status perspective, it becomes very clear: The whole reason we adopted trends in the 20th century is because it would associate us with a certain identity and a certain group. And those associations just aren’t getting built if culture moves too quickly.