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W. David Marx

@wdavidmarx

Author of Status and Culture, Ametora, and Blank Space, an upcoming cultural history of the 21st century (Nov '25). Newsletter at culture.ghost.io.

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Whatever your feelings about Kurt Cobain and Mariah Carey, it's clear there's a huge difference alone in just comparing their holiday albums: Carey's "Merry Christmas" vs. Nirvana's "In Disposing the Holy Placenta"

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Flier for a very good Tokion party in New York in late November 2001, held as a celebration of the city after the terrorist attacks. Design by Kevin Lyons.

Flier for a very good Tokion party in New York in late November 2001, held as a celebration of the city after the terrorist attacks. Design by Kevin Lyons.
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Stans spending their precious time duking it out online over multi-millionaires who don't know or care about them and are also largely completely chill with one another is not unrelated to our broader slide into braindead oligarchy and authoritarianism

Stans spending their precious time duking it out online over multi-millionaires who don't know or care about them and are also largely completely chill with one another is not unrelated to our broader slide into braindead oligarchy and authoritarianism
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NEWSLETTER: The best way to understand how society will value GenAI is to look at polyester's rise and fall: from a high-tech miracle fiber to a one-word symbol for tastelessness culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our-p…

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"The logical processes of fashion might be extrapolated to the dimension of 'culture' in general — to all social production of signs, values and relations." - Jean Baudrillard, 1972