Vanilla, Peaches, and All the Other Lesser Smells
The scientific search for fundamental human taste preferences is commendable but our "evolutionary instincts" can't explain the full complexity of
The Sociology of John Mayer’s Outfit Guidance
John Mayer's "point-system" for balanced creative dress reveals a few key
realities about how culture works
Guitarist and songwriter John
Future Sounds: Cheap Gear and Easy Samples
Does the democratization of electronic music tools change how we hear the
sounds?
Like many others in the late 1990s,
Art versus commerce in the NFT Era
With no more "art for art's sake" nor "selling out," we have landed upon a new
resolution in the long
Notes on The Nineties
Thoughts on Chuck Klosterman's The Nineties: A Book and the lived experience of
the Nineties, a particular decade
I. Remembering
What is Culture? Part Seven: Summary and Bibliography
Wrapping everything up, with a few clarifications and some suggestions for
further reading
We started with a near-impossible mission: Define
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
If everything in culture is made of conventions, we should be able to explain
all cultural phenomena in terms of
What is Culture? Part Five: A web of meanings and values
Conventions explain why we follow the same regular behaviors in our community,
but they also explain how groups agree on
What is Culture? Part Four: Conventions
If culture describes the arbitrary aspects of life, conventions explain why
communities repeatedly make the same arbitrary choices over so
What is Culture? Part Three: Arbitrariness
In the third part of a seven-part limited series, we look at how arbitrary
choices are at the core of
