MK

This was what personal style was to me in 2008: a cipher for something much broader, a glimpse into the lives of others.

For one, social-media operators discovered that the more emotionally charged the content, the better it spread across its users’ networks.

Truly democratizing cultural creativity, one might argue, would promote the development of skills and capacities rather than minimize the need for them.

Instead of being fed from above a limited diet of standardized cultural products, everyone — not just a minority of highly educated omnivores — can now craft a varied and customized cultural diet from the digital cornucopia. People create these customized diets by sharing the work of “curation” in differentiated niche taste communities. This

It’s only on platforms where controversy and drama are prioritized for driving engagement where we’re rewarded for despising each other.

Welcome to the flat era of fashion. Flat is what happens when consumers buy clothing on the basis of how it looks in two dimensions, in an image to be shared on social media.

Character is gone, because eccentricity is harder to duplicate and sell in bulk.