http://cultureby.com/2005/01/universe_of_one.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cultureby.com/2005/01/universe_of_one.html/comment-page-1#comment-6781 Sean Ryan Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:23:23 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1029#comment-6781 This is reminiscent of what Naomi Klein talks about in her book—No Logo. Fashion design has become so quick to respond to new trends and attacks from bloggers that you begin to see brands like FCUK that beet the “culture jammers” to the punch by parodying their own ads. Simmel had much to say about fashion and the sort of cycle of fashion from the haves down to the inner city have nots and then out to the kids in the burbs. Is it possible that fashion is now changing at such a break neck speed that the cycle has been broken and it now represents some other amorphous structure? Or perhaps its more of a conscious effort to elude clear cut boundaries as you say. The ability to slip in and out of different identities (in ethnicity they call it “passing”) has become a more desirable identity marker as of late—I hate to blame it on globalization (sounds so cliché) but there you have it. This is reminiscent of what Naomi Klein talks about in her book—No Logo. Fashion design has become so quick to respond to new trends and attacks from bloggers that you begin to see brands like FCUK that beet the “culture jammers” to the punch by parodying their own ads. Simmel had much to say about fashion and the sort of cycle of fashion from the haves down to the inner city have nots and then out to the kids in the burbs. Is it possible that fashion is now changing at such a break neck speed that the cycle has been broken and it now represents some other amorphous structure? Or perhaps its more of a conscious effort to elude clear cut boundaries as you say. The ability to slip in and out of different identities (in ethnicity they call it “passing”) has become a more desirable identity marker as of late—I hate to blame it on globalization (sounds so cliché) but there you have it.

]]> http://cultureby.com/2005/01/universe_of_one.html/comment-page-1#comment-6780 Andy Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:06:51 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1029#comment-6780 You think that "innovative" language is clear and communicative? What about T.S. Eliot or Judith Butler? You think that “innovative” language is clear and communicative? What about T.S. Eliot or Judith Butler?

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