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HOARDICULTURE is a series celebrating hoarding as a modern malady of collecting so much research and claiming it as a cultural trend.
“Hoardiculture: Collecting so much junk there are piles of random shit cluttering everywhere possible and then claiming it’s a cultural trend.”
(Urban Dictionary)
A selection of the past weeks’ insightful treasures, amassed from our constant research, that signal social-cultural change.
Fashion is complex, ambiguous, and irrational. Dr Renate Stauss examines what fashion is, and is not (only) in a contemporary context of a fashion system favouring financial and socio-cultural capital over human and natural capital.
Trends are bullsh*t. They are now just a way to get consumers to feel bad, out of touch, and the need to buy more.
A million “something-core” trends later, the time has come to finally define the one that launched them all: the Normcore.
How do harmonious cultural values, pro-environmental self-identity, and consumers' sustainable consumption behaviours spanning acquisition, usage, and disposal connect?
Consumption sacrifice is the intentional act of incurring a cost to the self — in money, time, or preferences — when making a consumption decision, with expected direct benefits to one's partner.
How does social identity work? A call to stop using meaningless generation labels.
Social networks are getting social again with Maven, a new interests-based platform radically revamping serendipity and human connections.
From Bottega Veneta to ZEGNA, clubhouses are fashion’s latest obsession for post-transactional relationships.
EVERPRESS’ Save Our Spaces initiative aims to preserve cultural spaces such as independent music venues, grassroots community spaces, and local hospitality businesses as the true assets to shape communities and enrich lives.
Contributor to the creative soccer culture SoccerBible unveiled their inaugural SoccerBible Insights paper, a guide to new expressions of creativity in football unpacking the potential that this culture holds for consumers, brands, and creatives.
A brief, weird history of brainwashing, from politics and neuroscience to the xinao effect of advertising campaigns and pop songs.
Author of the influential book Filterworld, Kyle Chayka praises online cultural curators as an antidote to our algorithm-shaped culture.
“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.”
An exploration of The Post-Individual, not as a rejection of individualism, but as a graduation from it.