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"I hope Gosling has seen them and liked them, and I hope he isn’t going to get tormented by people with spoons for the rest of his career"
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"It’s a strange reversal. For most of history, the poor would have eaten the local pigs and known the origin of their socks, and the rich had better access to a global marketplace. But changing elite tastes and the relentless efficiency of supply chains have slowly inverted tastes: In many categories, the poor now buy from the exotic unknown, and the rich insist on what can be traced, from the pig next door to the locally sewn sock"
John Maus - And The Rain
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"Dubai’s advantage over the rest of the world was its willingness to accept the total irrelevance but cosmetic necessity of countries. It could be every country, no country, and its own very particular kind of country, all at once"
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"Though its commercial resurgence is small in absolute terms, the vinyl record is one of the key modern cultural commodities on which these loose and elusive cultural properties are fixed and stabilised. In short, the vinyl record is a perfect example of how a mechanically reproducible product can become an iconic signifier full of references. It shows that aura of authenticity is not reducible to any one notion of originality or uniqueness but is instead constituted relationally in contingent social performances."
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