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To paraphrase Marx, we might hunt for jobs on LinkedIn in the morning, fish for compliments on Instagram in the afternoon, criticize each other on Twitter after dinner, and be as lascivious as we like on Tinder in the late evening, without letting any of these identities define us... Nevertheless, something is lost in this fractionalization of the... See more
David Phelps • People are the New Platforms
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 writing is all designed in advance. Is a conversation more truthful than that? Or in the context that we're talking about, is the conversation as a medium just more entertaining, a better way to grab the audience's focus?
One Thing • 🟧 Conversations Are the New Unit of Culture
If you serve as a mechanical slave to mass media and online algorithms, you’ll end up with intellectual diabetes. To find quality information, you have to rebel against the incentives of mass media and the algorithms that threaten its business model.Make no mistake. For the conscious news consumer, there has never been a better time to be alive.... See more
David Perell • The Paradox of Abundance - David Perell
Brian Lange puts it brilliantly: “Transaction is identity exchange.”
Consumers exchange capital for identity, and makers exchange their time, labor and expression for the goods or services they sell. Commerce is a continuous exchange of identities.
Consumers exchange capital for identity, and makers exchange their time, labor and expression for the goods or services they sell. Commerce is a continuous exchange of identities.
Matt Klein • Making Sense of Culture Amidst Contradiction
The basis for any approach to self-transformation is an ever-increasing awareness of reality and the shedding of illusions,” writes Erich Fromm in The Art of Being. He refers often to awakeness, to making conscious what is repressed. To not just hearing, but listening. Not just seeing, but looking, watching. You can do this anywhere, with anything.... See more
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