Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
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Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
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Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
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- Complex cultural ecosystems with many sub-units provide inherent sources of novelty for the mainstream — e.g. minority cultures, subcultures, and countercultures create new conventions with potential to provide stimulation to mainstream individuals.
from Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
Andrew McCluskey added
recent evidence of collection editors driving home page design based on their needs and desires
In the new cultural economy, the culture is the product. It is composed of practices, ideas, and discourses. Products are auxiliary, supportive, but not the main event. And most importantly, people now opt into these designed cultures with full knowledge and awareness that these cultures might change who they are. The authenticity-driven culture o
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In the new cultural economy, the culture is the product. It is composed of practices, ideas, and discourses. Products are auxiliary, supportive, but not the main event. And most importantly, people now opt into these designed cultures with full knowledge and awareness that these cultures might change who they are.
from Life After Lifestyle by Toby
Keely Adler added
Here is where culture enters the picture. I mean“culture” in its anthropological rather than artisticsense. What values and practices can hold people to-gether as the institutions in which they live fragment? My generation suffered from a want of imagination inanswering this question, in advancing the virtues ofsmall-scale community. Co
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- Culture is the collection of unwritten rules, norms, and values around “how we do things here.” Every human environment—from the two-person couples to the 20-person classrooms to the 20,000-person companies—is embedded with its own culture. We can visualize a group’s culture as a kind of gas cloud that fills the room when the group is together.
from Page Not Found — Wait But Why by Tim Urban
Ajinkya Wadhwa added
- an ecological civilization would be based on the all-encompassing symbiosis between human society and the natural world. Human activity would be organized, not merely to avoid harm to the living Earth, but to actively regenerate and sustain its health.
from What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like? by Jeremy Lent
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