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W. David Marx

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Author of Ametora / new book Status & Culture in '22 for @VikingBooks / worked on @ThePremise / founded @neojaponisme / newsletter at http://culture.ghost.io

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W. David Marx @wdavidmarx · Dec 10, 2023
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Huge congrats also to Stanley Kubrick for his 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey" finally getting some 2023 recognition

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2001: A Space Odyssey
by Stanley Kubrick
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W. David Marx @wdavidmarx · May 16, 2023
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For my newsletter this week, I wrote about Natasha Degen's excellent new book "Merchants of Style: Art and Fashion After Warhol" — about how the fashion industry took over the artworld institution in the last fifty years and how that's changed art

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Merchants of Style: Art and Fashion After Warhol
by Natasha Degen
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W. David Marx @wdavidmarx · Mar 31, 2023
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Interesting piece by @connorshepherd about how this new wave of AI is so instantly competitive that it's more likely to reduce margins than to create trillionaires

Article Mar 31, 2023
AI is a Margin Destruction Machine
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W. David Marx @wdavidmarx · Mar 14, 2023
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Truly excellent, well-researched piece by @graziemana that uses plastic surgery to lay out in detail how status dynamics create new facial aesthetics, which then diffuse like any fashion trend from distinctive to ubiquitous to "vulgar."

Article Feb 16, 2023
The Class Politics of Instagram Face
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