Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
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Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
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
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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.
from Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism by Culture: An Owner's Manual
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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.
from Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism by Culture: An Owner's Manual
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- While a complex, stimulating environment is useful for providing new insights, a more humdrum setting may be indicated for pursuing the bulk of the creative endeavor—the much longer periods of preparation that must precede the flash of insight, and the equally long periods of evaluation and elaboration that follow... We need a supportive symbolic e... See more
from Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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.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.
from Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism by Culture: An Owner's Manual
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- Abundant environments may surprise you: even though they’re lacking in material scarcity or literal friction, there’s still plenty of work to do. It’s just a different kind of work: the work of dealing with complexity, clarity, curation, and especially synthesis. The effort and value being traded here lend themselves far more naturally to a gift cu... See more
from Homesteading the Twittersphere by Alex Danco
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