INTERNET COOL

Explores the evolution of "cool" in culture, contrasting internet cool with scene cool, and examining how mainstream media adapts to digital disruptions while keeping a focus on emerging trends and personalities.

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While this shift has lowered many cultural barriers to entry, since anyone can make their work public online, it has also resulted in a kind of tyranny of real-time data.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

A generation’s currency is measured in trends, the moments that make an era mouthwateringly memorable. Only these fads are no longer dictated by a handful of tastemakers. Instead, what gets crowned as cool is often determined by how well a trend appeals to the rhythms of a specific platform. An idea’s artistic or cultural cachet depends on how easi... See more

Jason Parham Culture • The Age of Everything Culture Is Here

Overmining, extracting and under funding, are we killing culture?

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After Authenticity

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