To the Vector the Spoils: On McKenzie Wark’s ‘Capital Is Dead’, PopMatters
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To the Vector the Spoils: On McKenzie Wark’s ‘Capital Is Dead’, PopMatters
Eichhorn responds to the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's 1970s concept of "cultural capital": the fluency in forms of high culture that could bestow social status and help members of elite classes to identify one another.
Cultural capital is knowing that cashmere is a more aspirational fabric than cotton or that a Jackson Pollock painting is much
... See moreThe overall digital environment is dictated by tech companies with ruthlessly capitalist, expansionary motives, which do not provide the most fertile ground for culture. While the magazine fashion editor may periodically use their ability to pick out and promote a previously unheard voice, the algorithmic feed never will; it can only iterate on
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