They're definitely making fun of their nephew, buy I love that the artist is just so disconnected to reality that they can't even make up fake prices that sound plausible. $2500 cargo pants and a $65 watch? What?
I’ve seen cargo pants go for 1500. I know some people who own them. https://acrnm.com/products/P30A-DS_NA
https://acrnm.com/products/P34-DS_SS21
I’m sure I could find something higher that is more one off but I can’t imagine anyone buying those outside of art snobs. Acronym fits in the flexing power of 2016 streetwear enough you see it mixed into collections.
There's also the idea of class as a taste distinction: ‘Taste, a class culture turned into nature, that is, embodied, helps to shape the class body. It follows that the body is the most indisputable materialization of class taste’ (Bourdieu, 1984)
Not to justify whatever the author intends, but if there is substance there, it is part of a class critique
Don't forget how fashion industry takes the styles of working class and marginalized people and turn it to profits after decades of deriding it as tasteless.
Taste, a class culture turned into nature, that is, embodied, helps to shape the class body. It follows that the body is the most indisputable materialization of class taste
Please rephrase this on the level of a dum dum for me
I think Bourdieu (a famously obscure French "postmodern" writer) is basically saying that class can physically manifest itself in the body, and that taste is fundamentally a class value. It's from a book that I didn't read(!) called Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste which is supposedly about how distinguishing your taste is a form of distinguishing your class. For me this idea is important because it leads to today's liberal aesthetics of posturing while doing nothing in practice.
In general my point with the comic is that even if we take it at face value (poor people make bad clothing decisions and are therefore immoral and stupid), then poor people only do this because of proletarian culture, which today is obviously co-opted by consumer society from its inception, even created to be simply a target market, sold to and commodified; therefore it is not immoral or stupid at all to fit in with your peers, it could be socially mandated. Of course, the comic is dumb and Bourdieu's idea becomes confusing and breaks down when all the bougie elites read his book and decide that understanding proletarian culture is also a form of upper class distinction (which fits right in with liberal multiculturalism) but I think the idea is still very helpful.
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They're definitely making fun of their nephew, buy I love that the artist is just so disconnected to reality that they can't even make up fake prices that sound plausible. $2500 cargo pants and a $65 watch? What?
Maybe he's carrying a bunch of drugs in his cargo pants
I’ve seen cargo pants go for 1500. I know some people who own them. https://acrnm.com/products/P30A-DS_NA https://acrnm.com/products/P34-DS_SS21
I’m sure I could find something higher that is more one off but I can’t imagine anyone buying those outside of art snobs. Acronym fits in the flexing power of 2016 streetwear enough you see it mixed into collections.
Lmao. Those first pants look like shit. Anyone who owns these deserves to play Minecraft with me if you know what I mean.
When you wanna look like Trump when he needs his diaper changed
cargo pants armani edition
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/JUHxy8UFf9.png
Maybe I don't have enough fashion sense, but looks to me like they want people to pay over $1500 to look like ass
Casio F-91W is the peak of watches (although it takes white privilege to not get sent to Guantanamo for wearing it).
There's also the idea of class as a taste distinction: ‘Taste, a class culture turned into nature, that is, embodied, helps to shape the class body. It follows that the body is the most indisputable materialization of class taste’ (Bourdieu, 1984)
Not to justify whatever the author intends, but if there is substance there, it is part of a class critique
Don't forget how fashion industry takes the styles of working class and marginalized people and turn it to profits after decades of deriding it as tasteless.
Please rephrase this on the level of a dum dum for me
I think Bourdieu (a famously obscure French "postmodern" writer) is basically saying that class can physically manifest itself in the body, and that taste is fundamentally a class value. It's from a book that I didn't read(!) called Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste which is supposedly about how distinguishing your taste is a form of distinguishing your class. For me this idea is important because it leads to today's liberal aesthetics of posturing while doing nothing in practice.
In general my point with the comic is that even if we take it at face value (poor people make bad clothing decisions and are therefore immoral and stupid), then poor people only do this because of proletarian culture, which today is obviously co-opted by consumer society from its inception, even created to be simply a target market, sold to and commodified; therefore it is not immoral or stupid at all to fit in with your peers, it could be socially mandated. Of course, the comic is dumb and Bourdieu's idea becomes confusing and breaks down when all the bougie elites read his book and decide that understanding proletarian culture is also a form of upper class distinction (which fits right in with liberal multiculturalism) but I think the idea is still very helpful.
Okay, thank you ty
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yeah I read theory