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Today’s most vital cultural forms are your identity, personality, and image. And in this new cultural paradigm, the artist’s performance of themself is often more important than the art they make. The persona is the message.
The Downward Spiral: Popular Things
1.4. The largest cultural segment in any society is the “mainstream,” although it may represent a plurality rather than a majority.
1.4.1 The “average” person in any society belongs to this taste world as it requires no specialized knowledge, nor has very high barriers to participation. Tastes can be acquired through ambient absorption — e.g. heari... See more
1.4.1 The “average” person in any society belongs to this taste world as it requires no specialized knowledge, nor has very high barriers to participation. Tastes can be acquired through ambient absorption — e.g. heari... See more
Culture: An Owner's Manual • Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
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Samanta • 3 cards
pop culture is dead; long live slop culture
All these changes make me crave the opposite: a fixed, stable, reliable way of accessing whatever culture you want. Which is exactly what earlier forms of collecting and consuming culture once offered. We took that stability for granted.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Culture & Society
thots, paragraphs, pieces, diatribes, social Darwinism; societal costs of dysfunctional reaction(s) to overwhelming change
Dale Lowery • 3 cards
Dune Part Two and the Return of Socialist Realism We are living through an era of thudding cultural literalism.In our narrative products (movies, TV and to a lesser but noticeable extent, novels) that has meant that instead of story we get plot, premise and lore, dialogue is replaced by
all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.ioan aspect of pop appreciation that latently informs everything else about it: the tyranny of the new.