Tag: pop culture

How Pop Culture Works

A (personal) theory on the persistence of popular cultural flotsam: • Culture as an autonomously self-propagating information-processing system has evolved to encode (i.e. store) itself in multiple, parallel ways – for redundancy and continuity. • The value of such superficially-itinerant, largely vacuous, trashy culture is in the various ways that it stores partial, incomplete images […]

Tags b-grade, daily mail, gossip, Kardashian, paparazzi, pop culture, Popular Culture, reality tv, soap opera, tabloid, trash

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Cultural Mnemonics

Jimi Hendrix is one of those icons and representational idioms that provide a counter-cultural mnemonic eloquence. His presence is resonant with Jim Morrison, a prismatic Dark Side of the Moon, posters of Henry Fonda on his Harley in Easy Rider. The cultural nodes of these idioms are undergoing constant representational metamorphosis and this artistic thread […]

Tags art, communication, counterculture, easy rider, growth, hendrix, henry fonda, information, jim morrison, jimi hendrix, life, meme, mnemonic, pattern, pink floyd, pop, pop culture, resilience, the doors