“And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every 6 months.”
Oscar Wilde, “Literary and Other Notes I”, Woman’s World (November 1887)
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“Up and down with ecology—the ‘issue-attention cycle’”, 1972; “On Anthony Downs’s ‘Up and Down with Ecology: The “Issue-Attention” Cycle’”, Gupta & Jenkins-2015
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“Novelty and human aesthetic preferences”, et al 1983
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“Signaling Status with Luxury Goods: The Role of Brand Prominence”, et al 2010
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“The Logic of Fashion Cycles”, et al 2012
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“Violence and the Sacred: College as an incubator of Girardian terror”, Dan Wang
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“Accelerating dynamics of collective attention”, Lorenz- et al 2019 (see also “Predicting History”, et al 2019); “Anchoring in the past, tweeting from the present: Cognitive bias in journalists’ word choices”, 2022
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“The universal decay of collective memory and attention”, et al 2019
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“The hipster effect: When anti-conformists all look the same”, 2019
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“From Aristocratic to Ordinary: Shifting Modes of Elite Distinction”, Friedman & Reeves
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“Hipsters and the cool: A game theoretic analysis of identity expression, trends, and fads”, et al 2021
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Politics:
- Anabaptism: Münster rebellion; the wreck of the Batavia
- Circulation of elite
- Sneetches
- “Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers”/“Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s”, Tom Wolfe 1970
- “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena”, 1994
- The Cultural Revolution, 2016
- Abandoned Footnotes
- Scott Alexander: “Right Is The New Left” (eg. English Catholic converts); “Book Review: Fussell On Class” (Bourdieu); “New Atheism: The Godlessness That Failed”/“The Rise And Fall Of Online Culture Wars”; “What Happened To ’90s Environmentalism?”; “A Cyclic Theory Of Subcultures”
- “‘Ethics’ is advertising”
- “I Support The Current Thing”
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See Also: “Why Do Hipsters Steal Stuff?”; “Culture is Not About Esthetics”; “Who Buys Fonts?”; “The Melancholy of Subculture Society”