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It had been aggressively filtered in advance to appeal to me—or at least myself as a generic consumer—with abundant reassurances that other people did like the books on display.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Lucy Mort • The Gen Z Aesthetic
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
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
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Hannah Grey
A decade or so ago, brands shifted from increasing value of their products through utility, competitive comparison, and creative advertising to endowing products they made with aesthetic, sustainability credentials, a story of artisanship and provenance, and/or a community in order to give their products identity and singularity. (Virgil Abloh made
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