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Eichhorn uses the potent term “content capital”—a riff on Pierre Bourdieu’s “cultural capital”—to describe the way in which a fluency in posting online can determine the success, or even the existence, of an artist’s work.
“Cultural producers who, in the past, may have focused on writing books or producing films or making art must now also spend con... See more
“Cultural producers who, in the past, may have focused on writing books or producing films or making art must now also spend con... See more
Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need leaders in all aspects of our lives, and human curators should be the arbiters of taste. You may already be sick of trending templates, memes, specific types of click-baity content, soulless imagery, vapid videos, engagement farming, annoying trending songs.9 It’s not going to stop. In fact, it’s going to get much worse. The problem is that... See more
Jaime Derringer • The Internet needs curators.
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