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Hyperconnectivity in the cultural realm promises abundance, decommodification and democratization. Everyone has at their fingertips an infinitely rich and varieduniverse of cultural products. New cultural forms and innovative practices have proliferated. Much digital culture is freely shared rather than bought and sold. And ever-expanding circles o
... See moreROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
Successful platforms do not just discover what consumers want — they produce the consumers and the forms of consumer desire that they need.
ROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
We are formed by the structures of modern society to be insatiable consumers of an increasing range of commodified things and experiences and services. There is no art in this, because the tacit assumption that we must buy into along the way is that there is no limit to what we can consume.
L. M. Sacasas • The Art of Living
destabilization of the self as its anchors in material culture slip.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
A democratic cultural politics would be developmentalist — oriented to learning, growth and discovery — rather than presentist.
ROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
What if the global community, facing existential threats, had to decide which aspects of their culture and identity to preserve in a digital vault — and which to leave behind? Who gets to make those decisions, and what does it mean for future generations?
Abril Chimal • Speculative Futures of Humanitarian Aid — IFRC Solferino Academy
shift from totalizing accounts of social and cultural processes toward partial, particularized, and contingent accounts of specific encounters within and between cultures.