[Air-l] maybe a silly question.. but

[radhika gajjala]

both Jonathan's and Mary's suggestions are very useful, methinks.


r

>And so, how useful it might be, then, to go "back to the future" with
>someone like Bourdieu, whose refutation of any notion of "individuality" and
>"taste" is very compelling, if taste is read as a location of culture, and
>as such, of the social written on the body.
>
>"Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier. Social subjects,
>classified by their classifications, distinguish themselves by the
>distinctions they make, between the beautiful and the ugly, the
>distinguished and the vulgar, in which their position in the objective
>classifications is expressed or betrayed." (from Pierre Bourdieu
>'Distinction')
>
>Mary
>
>On 8/27/06 8:42 PM, "Jonathan Cornwell" <jrc at tcfir.org> wrote:
>
>>  "Taste Fabrics and the Beauty of Homogeneity" by Hugo Liu, Glorianna
>>  Davenport, and Pattie Maes introduced me to the wonderful (IMHO) phrase
>>  "taste fabric". The first part of the abstract reads:
>>
>>  "The quintessence of an individual's taste is her aesthetic sensibility and
>>  system of preferences. Online social network profiles, such as those
>>  appearing on Friendster and MySpace, are a veritable "show and tell" for
>>  taste-allowing individuals to perform acts of taste by declaring their
>>  favorite books, what music they love, and what their passions are. By mining
>>  these social network profiles en masse and analyzing how each taste instance
>>  (e.g. a book, an author, a band, a cuisine, etc.) is meaningfully correlated
>>  with every other, an underlying fabric of taste common across individuals
>>  can be inferred." [Taste fabric and the Beauty...]
>
>
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