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Kailan Lee ⢠1 card
âI have a fascination with Andy Warhol and the way he wanted to make commercial art that was taken as seriously as fine art. Music has gotten so pretentious that now itâs almost rebellious to be a pop artist.
Jackie Huba ⢠Monster Loyalty: How Lady Gaga Turns Followers into Fanatics
âPop culture doesnât really change the world,â the labor organizer Teo Bugbee wrote for SSENSE that summer. âItâs a product to be consumed, an indulgence. But the gift of pop is that it actualizes a fantasy: visions of a world that doesnât yet and maybe wonât ever exist.â
Kaitlyn Tiffany ⢠Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It
What journalist W. David Marx calls âsavvy consumers,â those desiring cool and convention-breaking pop culture, are still consumers. When the names of products or celebrities appear in a book, they prick us like a targeted ad, jumping from the page as digestible morsels. Reference novels work because of globalized digitization; the danger in them
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cringe culture
Namerindel ⢠1 card
The Fifth Pillar: A Case for Hip-Hop Architecture
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