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
As Pajkovic wrote, “Feedback loops reinforce a user’s pre-existing preferences, diminishing their exposure to a diverse range of cultural offerings and denying art, aesthetics and culture of its confrontational societal role.” That lack of confrontation is concerning. It’s not that great art needs to be inherently offensive; rather, when everything
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The "culture" of a society isn't a blob of random human activity, but an orderly ecosystem arising from the interactions between particular subunits. To maintain ecosystem health, we must reject the cynical “poptimist” framing of culture as a mere vehicle for entertainment and commerce and instead promote the benefits of constant cultural refresh.
Culture: An Owner's Manual • Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
The advent of Filterworld has seen a breakdown in monoculture… culture is meant to be communal and requires a certain degree of consistency across audiences; without communality, it loses some of its essential impact.
— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka
.1 In modern society, culture is never a single monolithic entity but instead an ecosystem of interlinking cultural subunits always in the state of dynamic interaction.