What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
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What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
moment of birth, to think in certain ways, to behave in accordance with certain standards, to want certain things, and to observe certain rules. They thereby created artificial instincts that enabled millions of strangers to cooperate effectively. This network of artificial instincts is called ‘culture’.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Culture is a shared set of elements that characterize a group of people – a religion, a race, a society, a movement, a scene.
Tapping into culture needs to be more than, how do I make my brand cool? Cultural strategy is the act of understanding, contextualizing and applying cultural knowledge to achieve an intended outcome or change, in a way that r... See more
Tapping into culture needs to be more than, how do I make my brand cool? Cultural strategy is the act of understanding, contextualizing and applying cultural knowledge to achieve an intended outcome or change, in a way that r... See more
Nick Susi • Culture Is the Client
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
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Popular culture prevails, and within that framework fragments of many thousands of meanings exist—and we all contribute to them. That has resulted in the division of standard macrocultures (“American culture,” “Japanese culture”) into many microcultures (“Hipsters,” “Goth”). Indeed, shifts in the macroculture happen when the habits and preferences
... See moreDebra Kaye • Red Thread Thinking: Weaving Together Connections for Brilliant Ideas and Profitable Innovation
In the new cultural economy, the culture is the product. It is composed of practices, ideas, and discourses. Products are auxiliary, supportive, but not the main event. And most importantly, people now opt into these designed cultures with full knowledge and awareness that these cultures might change who they are.
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
In this sense, all culture is a conversation or, more precisely, a corporation of conversations, conducted in a variety of symbolic modes.