W. David Marx
Person on 3 sites
Tokyo-based American writer; author of Ametora (2015), Status and Culture (2022) and Blank Space (2025).
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Newsletter: Culture: An Owner's Manual (opens culture.ghost.io)
“Good Taste is Not What’s Oppressing Us in 2026”
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Newsletter: Culture: An Owner's Manual (opens culture.ghost.io)
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4 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The good taste of each era tracks the makeup of its elites. (opens korrents.com)
“But as Veblen explained, the "good taste" of each era is correlated with the particular makeup of elites.”
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The taste for high art has become extremely marginal, limited almost entirely to a subset of knowledge workers. (opens korrents.com)
“Today the taste for “high art” has become extremely marginal, almost exclusively limited to a particular subset of knowledge workers.”
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People in similar social positions tend to share tastes, and the social hierarchy labels some tastes good and others bad. (opens korrents.com)
“People in similar social positions tend to have similar tastes (so-called “taste worlds”), and the social hierarchy elevates some tastes as “good” and disparages others as “bad."”
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The good taste of each era tracks the makeup of its elites. (opens korrents.com)
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11 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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10,000 Gecs (opens rcmnd.app)
“100 Gecs’ 10,000 Gecs was solid.”
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Get Up (opens rcmnd.app)
“I had the same issue with NewJeans’s very good EP “Get Up,” which uses the exact 2-step and D’n’b beats from tracks on my MiniDisc in 2001.”
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The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (opens rcmnd.app)
“The most meaningful book I read this year was Michael Tomasello’s The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (2001), which ties together evolutionary theory and social theory in a much, much more compelling way than the…”
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10,000 Gecs (opens rcmnd.app)