Jan
30
Links on Status and Culture - January 2024
Read to the end for a longer essay critiquing Ted Gioia's idea of Macro vs. Micro cultures that
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Dec
12
A 2023 Look-back: the internet dies, etc.
A year when the internet platforms’ erosion became fully depressing, social media creators settled into being a petit bourgeoisie, and
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Dec
05
On Taste and Congruence
Making the right choices isn’t enough to have good taste: There also must be harmony between the choices
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Oct
31
Links on Status and Culture - October 2023
Creator non-revolutions, non-luxurious queuing for luxury goods, non-songs of the summer, and meta-commentary on meta-celebrities
Each month I review the
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Sep
26
Ametora: Revised 2023 Edition
Today Basic Books is releasing a revised English version of my first book, Ametora, with an afterword looking at the
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Aug
29
They Might Be Giants = the Early Internet
How a single band embodied and dominated online culture in its primordial days, simply because the only people wired in
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Aug
15
Links on Status and Culture - August 2023
Two mini-essays on two big topics: an economics paper that provides new evidence for status value, and the social mechanics
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Aug
09
Our Natural Human Defenses Against A.I. Culture
Culture is made of humans, and A.I. doomsdayers haven't explained why we'll all fall in
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Jul
11
Why haven’t internet creators become superstars?
We’re a decade into online video emerging as the most powerful and popular form of mass media, and yet
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Jun
07
Pleading Clemency for Pierre Bourdieu's Impending Capital Punishment
Okay, Bourdieu may misuse the word "capital," but his work remains invaluable for better understanding class stratification and
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