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many people “do not want to think critically about the things they consume” and feel that “if they absorb any criticism about the things they consume it will magically ruin their enjoyment of them.” When we chatted about the role of criticism on a (fun, lightly gossipy) video call this month, she added that saying a piece of art is bad isn’t saying... See more
“I picked a bad time to become a critic” – Elizabeth Goodspeed on the collapse of design critique
Popular culture has always been a mix of the brilliant and the banal, and nothing I’ve shown you suggests that the ratio has changed.
Adam Mastroianni • Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
The former option is mercurial and driven by elite gatekeepers, a powerful group built up over a century of modern cultural industries, riddled with their own blind spots and biases including those of gender and race.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The Lifestyle era was not about creating culture; it was about attaching brands onto existing cultural contexts. It was not about shaping people; it was about sorting consumer demographics into niche categories.
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
culture
Prashanth Narayan and • 138 cards
the culture wars—as the vociferous debates over race, religion, gender, and school curricula were called during the 1980s and 1990s—have
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Analyst or Moralist?
quillette.com
largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques … in education as well as the arts.”