May
11
Art versus commerce in the NFT Era
With no more "art for art's sake" nor "selling out," we have landed upon
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W. David Marx
Apr
28
Notes on The Nineties
Thoughts on Chuck Klosterman's The Nineties: A Book and the lived experience of
the Nineties, a particular decade
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Apr
01
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
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Mar
15
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
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Mar
11
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
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Mar
08
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
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Mar
03
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
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Mar
01
What is Culture? Part Two: Components and Commonalities
In the second part of a seven-part limited series, we search for the common
components underlying the various definitions of
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Feb
22
What is Culture? Part One: The Word
In the first part of a seven-part limited series, we examine the four main ways
we use "culture,"
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Feb
14
An Introduction to the Newsletter
Culture: An Owner's Manual is a newsletter about the mechanics of culture: what
it is, what it does,
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