matthew beck
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matthew beck
Carbuncle
Is the slightly opaque Sublime user journey purposeful? Is it like this because Sublime users like to have to figure things out, do some searching and exploring, some unveiling—rather than have |even their tools| be served up to them like an instagram ad?
Can-bus complication
Culture refers to the emerging social, cultural and political values; it also refers to definition of the core social terms (e.g. influence, community, taste, equality, aspiration); mood, attention and vocabulary. E.g. early on, Glossier mastered the language of modern culture: BFF, intimate, personal, direct. The brand behavior reflected how... See more
Ana Andjelic • The brand checklist
Why is this happening? Firstly, we need to look at brain rot not merely as deterioration, but also as cultural alteration . A distinction Drew Austin also recently made, where he argues that digital slop - rather than decomposing like rotting fruit - acts more like a poison that stays in cultural circulation:
I prefer “brain poisoning,” [to describe... See more
Alexi Gunner • idle gaze 071: rotting upstream
w. David Marx also talks about how cultural artifacts are no longer allowed to wither and die
From Balenciaga’s tongue-in-cheek €2,000 IKEA FRAKTA shopping bag dupes to e-commerce platform Ssense’s self-deprecating takes on the absurdity of fashion subculture elitism, the runway sometimes feels reduced to one big meme generator.
idle gaze 073: satire, the great cultural sedative.
Meaning culture gets constantly recycled rather than having a finite lifecycle
Nacre
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