taste
Complicated Culture
Daisy Alioto with W. David Marx.
dirt.fyi
why is a restaurant reservation a high status thing? It's because it is in a specific place. It is finite in supply. A lot of times you have to be somewhat connected to get it. It is the opposite of the Internet.
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I simply think we can't keep sleepwalking into hoping the (poptimist) world
... See moreIn fact, Chayka treats the concept of “taste” throughout with a preciousness I doubt he actually is unsophisticated enough to hold. He cites contradictory definitions, mobilizing Voltaire one moment to say that taste must be cultivated and effortful, and then Montesquieu and Agamben the next to say that taste works by rules we do not (cannot?)... See more
bookforum.com • Kyle Chayka Looks at Our Supposedly Flat New World
I stand alongside Chayka in looking for strategies to pushing in the other direction. But I can’t help rolling my eyes when he talks as if it’s any kind of novelty for artists (much less “influencers”) to find their visions stymied by commercial demand. Again, one advantage of the algorithmic version may be that it’s externalized in ways that become easier to spot and critique.
But the curation was never about financial reward. It was “there's a small unscalable business here about taste, that people rely on and really like, and everyone who works on it doesn't make very much money, but they're very cool.” We just don't live in a world where that's an acceptable way to live. There's a lot of economic pressures and again,... See more
Dirt: Complicated Culture
KRF : How do you define taste?
BD : Taste is the natural tendency to filter, mix and recombine the like and the unlike to approximate sublimity.
BD : Taste is the natural tendency to filter, mix and recombine the like and the unlike to approximate sublimity.
The Taste Report™: Ben Dietz
I’m fascinated with Coppola partly because she does different things very well, something I think we all strive for. But the way she presents herself and her work walks a perfect line between highbrow and approachable, never veering too far either way. She doesn’t deny her lineage or commercial success but maintains her artistic sensibility. Not... See more
Article
house dysmorphia vs nostalgia:
social media might be causing a sort of “house dysmorphia”
and it’s finally more noticeable as we become more drawn to nostalgia
your home should be a sincere reflection of yourself, not a copy of someone else’s highly curated design
it has so much more value in your life when the space you spend most of your time is... See more
social media might be causing a sort of “house dysmorphia”
and it’s finally more noticeable as we become more drawn to nostalgia
your home should be a sincere reflection of yourself, not a copy of someone else’s highly curated design
it has so much more value in your life when the space you spend most of your time is... See more
Link
In the digital age, cultural artifacts are eroded by abundance. Timelines layer and compress artwork, images, and artifacts into corners of the internet. In my corner, I stumbled across a speech entitled “Perfume, Defense and David Bowie’s Wedding” delivered by Brian Eno in 1992 at the Sadler Wells Theatre in London. In it, Eno predicted the... See more
The Future Will Be Like Perfume | Are.na Editorial
Collecting is an exercise in creating a framework, the logic of what is in or out. But then there are decisions that seem associative or intuitive.
The Organizing Edition
big secret to happiness is just liking stuff. finding more stuff to like. finding ways to like stuff you didn’t before. recognizing what it feels like to like something and doubling down on that. what feels frivolous is actually the whole ballgame
via Austin Kleon newsletter 5/24/24