Worn Out — Real Life
You may not care much what you wear, but there are intellectual fashions too, and you definitely don't want to participate in those. Not just because you want sovereignty over your own thoughts, but because unfashionable ideas are disproportionately likely to lead somewhere interesting.
bad time • How to Think for Yourself
Ajinkya Wadhwa added
“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform which may come in the form of betraying or divesting from your public online self
Caroline Busta • The Internet Didn’t Kill Counterculture—you Just Won’t Find It on Instagram
3LAU turns to both the streetwear and fine-art industries for inspiration, because both of those worlds invert the mainstream music-industry model of low-margin ubiquity in favor of high-margin scarcity.
Cherie Hu • Digital music’s new drop culture
sari added
If your style is meant to help you express your priorities, and your priorities exclusively concern being stylish, what does your style express? Can clothes express...clothes?
Haley Nahman • #176: Accounting for taste
Joe Maceda added
As W. David Marx argues, the internet has cheapened and commoditized taste so thoroughly that money is the only meaningful differentiator left.
Drew Austin • The Culture of Cope
Keely Adler added
Sartorial weirdness is luxury as affirmation of power - the power of luxury as an aesthetic system and also the power of individual designers within the industry.
Ana Andjelic • Luxury x Culture
Keely Adler added
In the age of social media, personal expression has become the most valuable form of currency, yet we still use the term ‘counterculture’ to describe alternatives to the hegemonic forces of yesteryear, as if dressing middle-class, white, and preppy still aligned with the rules of power today.
Caroline Busta • The Internet Didn’t Kill Counterculture—you Just Won’t Find It on Instagram
The presence of many nice-enough choices without any meaningful way to distinguish among them is a fundamental dysphoria of modern consumerism. Anybody can track in intimate detail how the wealthy and stylish spend their money via social media, and just when you’ve learned exactly what you can’t have, the internet swoops in to offer a look-for-less... See more
Amanda Mull • It’s All So … Premiocre
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