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Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators
- Knowing where to go and what to do is the currency that, in the modern aspiration economy, makes curators more important than influencers. They guide their audience through culture by putting forward a selection of images, references, codes, product releases, or memes. Curation gives even mundane objects value by connecting them with a point of vie... See more
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Natalie Audelo added 6mo ago
- Knowing where to go and what to do is the currency that, in the modern aspiration economy, makes curators more important than influencers. They guide their audience through culture by putting forward a selection of images, references, codes, product releases, or memes. Curation gives even mundane objects value by connecting them with a point of vie... See more
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Alara added 1y ago
- Modern aspiration is not about having money to buy things, but having taste to know what to buy
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Abhilash Rao added 6mo ago
- There’s a bookstore in Ginza that sells only one book. “A single room with a single book” is its tagline. Every week, the owner chooses the book, presents it in the center of the shop, and curates an exhibition with artworks, photographs, or related items around its subject matter. Entering his bookstore is like entering a book.
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Seth Werkheiser added 6mo ago
- Modern aspiration is not about having money to buy things, but having taste to know what to buy.
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Natalie Audelo added 6mo ago
- Curation gives even mundane objects value by connecting them with a point of view, heritage, a subculture or purpose that makes them stand out in the vortex of speed, superficiality, and newness.
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Robin Good added 8mo ago
- Modern aspiration is not about having money to buy things, but having taste to know what to buy. That’s where human curation comes in, and why it’s increasingly considered both a differentiator in fashion, food, travel, wellness, design, and an important value-add for tech platforms from Spotify to Netflix and HBO to Facebook and Apple.
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sari added 3y ago
- Knowing where to go and what to do is the currency that, in the modern aspiration economy, makes curators more important than influencers.
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sari added 3y ago
- In this context, knowledge and judgement and taste are valuable. We trust curators because we believe that they spent time and effort in developing their expertise. This belief seeped from the art world into the aspirational economy, with the new breed of aspirants looking to share their taste and turn their social and cultural capital into the eco... See more
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sari added 3y ago