The Art of Value Creation: How Luxury Brands Transform Trash into Coveted Commodities
A telephone cord to use as a necklace? A crushed can used as a keyring? Luxury brands are elevating the mundane with products which functionality seems to be nothing more than a bizarre signifier of luxury affiliation, bespeaking for our own eccentricity. What can these treasures symbolise when they’re literally trash?
Looking for information regarding online censorship will show results dating from 2011 to this day. It’s been more than a decade since information is not simply being moderated but communities are being silenced, if not erased, and they have reacted to this by self-censoring their images and enacting ways of talking about the issue without mentioning it — by using encoded words such as "nip nops" and "unalive."
When author J.K Rowling published her first novel of the now world famous series of fantasy novels about young wizard Harry Potter – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – she opened a gateway into a magical world that since then has expanded into a universe of spin off media, several books and merchandise. Rowlings […]
Back in the ‘80s American popular culture was at odds with Black culture and these principles showed in the video rotation of MTV. But it all changed when the King of Pop took the stage.
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Esmay Wagemans and Sarah Sitkin are scrutinising processes of organic and inorganic body dysmorphia, literally and abstractly, with their replicas of human skin. Their sculptures are blurring the line of what is real and what it seems to be real.
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Hajime Sorayama turned sci-fi literature and films into drawings that depicted the future of the female human, defined by technology, intertwined with mainstream ideas of the perfect woman.
