EPISODE · Sep 17, 2024 · 25 MIN
Jane Song: Author of "Rock Beats Scissors"
from Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock · host Callie Hitchcock
On this episode I talk to the writer Jane Song her article “Rock Beats Scissors” about the sociological implications of the shift from dagger consumer products to our current deluge of pebble consumer products. In this episode we talk about how this phenomenon maps onto a kind of boom and bust cycle in the economy and also has larger implications for cultural powerlessness and loneliness. We also get into Sianne Ngai’s aesthetic theory of cute and how that informs the emergence of the pebble. Jane’s Substack Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai Items Mentioned in the Podcast: Fenty Beauty Stunna Lip Paint Louboutins Glossier You Solid Perfume Rare Beauty Blush Goober Candle Owala Water Bottles EOS chapstick Flume Pebble Vape Helle Mardahl Bon Bons Sonny Angel
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On this episode I talk to the writer Jane Song her article “Rock Beats Scissors” about the sociological implications of the shift from dagger consumer products to our current deluge of pebble consumer products. In this episode we talk about how this phenomenon maps onto a kind of boom and bust cycle in the economy and also has larger implications for cultural powerlessness and loneliness. We also get into Sianne Ngai’s aesthetic theory of cute and how that informs the emergence of the pebble. Jane’s Substack Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai Items Mentioned in the Podcast: Fenty Beauty Stunna Lip Paint Louboutins Glossier You Solid Perfume Rare Beauty Blush Goober Candle Owala Water Bottles EOS chapstick Flume Pebble Vape Helle Mardahl Bon Bons Sonny Angel
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