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)
- Sharing tastes forges social bonds between people (i.e. bridges), while discrepancies in taste create barriers between people (i.e. fences).
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Andrew McCluskey added 22d ago
literally what we are doing in collaborative playlists
- The Wundt curve shows that overly simple and predictable stimuli provide only neutral hedonic value. Positive hedonic value requires stimuli that are somewhat novel/complex/ambiguous. Too much novelty or complexity, however, leads to negative hedonic value. There is, then, a “sweet spot” for the right amount of stimulus novelty/complexity: slightly... See more
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Andrew McCluskey added 1mo ago
the holy grail for recommendation systems
- 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.
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Andrew McCluskey added 22d ago
recent evidence of collection editors driving home page design based on their needs and desires
- In needing to maximize hedonic value for as many people as possible, a healthy cultural ecosystem must produce artworks of both relatively simple and complex stimuli. Complex stimuli preferred by experienced and educated individuals are alienating to less experienced and educated individuals, and simple stimuli are not entertaining to more experien... See more
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Andrew McCluskey added 22d ago
this speaks to the levle of complexity in track selection but perhaps more to the complexity of the contextual exchange - cmpare go with spirit to a single sentence summary with no description - significant difference level of complexity and input required
- 2.6.3 True artists produce works that are novel, complex, and ambiguous.
2.6.4 Novel, complex, and ambiguous artworks can always be simplified to make conventional art forms more stimulating for mainstream audiences.from Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
Andrew McCluskey added 22d ago
it is called the thought leader journey as perhaps it is the act of helping people move from the simple understanding to the more nuanced implementation - a book - a talk - a podcast - an article - a video - these are all ways of simplifying a construct or an idea to make it grokkable and accessible. Seems that people will still need help in applying the construct to their unique environment - hence workshop - on site consulting model
- Aesthetically sophisticate individuals are likely to become cosmopolitan — i.e. they understand their culture of origin as arbitrary and become open-minded towards alternatives. Individuals with fewer aesthetic experiences are likely to remain provincial : They believe that only their culture of origin is correct, which closes their minds to other ... See more
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Andrew McCluskey added 1mo ago