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“steering mechanisms” serving to limit, shape or redirect public debate.
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
Meanwhile, the fragmentation of culture into the “long tail” has diluted the power of taste to serve as an effective means of social exclusion.
W. David Marx • Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
In creating art, the sum total of the parts often defies expectation. Theory and practice don’t always line up.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
During this formative time, she developed the roots of what one historian has called her “ecosocial” interpretation of the built environment, which considered architecture and the built environment to be an extension and manifestation of human ecology.5 This preference for the social led her to elevate Buckminster Fuller’s ecological utopianism ove... See more
Aggregate – Black Spaces Matter
structuring excess, namely the field of potential desires
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Pragmatic Chaos
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
“Queering” gradually had less to do with a politicized attitude than with branded style.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
What’s amazing is that things like hashtag design—these essentially ad hoc experiments in digital architecture—have shaped so much of our political discourse.