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gabriel and • 1 card
Online Communities Are Still Catching Up to My Mother's Garden Club
University of Colorado Media Enterprise Design Labhackernoon.com
New York’s nightclubs are the particle accelerators of sociology: reliably creating precise conditions under which exotic extremes of status-seeking behaviour can be observed.
Ashley Mears, model turned sociology professor, wrote a great book about them. Thread of key points:
Richard Ngox.commedia theory
Laura Huang • 28 cards
They had re-organized the Club as a kind of meta-investment fund and management bureau interested in projects that would, from the point of view of the mainstream, probably be considered fringe and ridiculed.
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
beyond the algorithm
Tommi • 12 cards
I’m intrigued with the modern version of a country club. I think of concepts like Soho House or the Wing as “urban country clubs”. These membership businesses gather communities of like-minded people. They create repeat traffic and have demographic and psychographic desirability in their members. These communities are powerful because if they... See more