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Interesting. This article and the book it reviews are expansive in their investigation of the determinants of taste, but I’ve been thinking over the last few ye
by firasd 10y ago
Interesting. This article and the book it reviews are expansive in their investigation of the determinants of taste, but I’ve been thinking over the last few years that aesthetics are probably more socially determined than I’d thought. Does that mean everyone in the same house will have the same tastes? Not necessarily. But it does mean what you judge as good or bad will be connected, probably inseparably, to some social group’s understanding (‘your people.’)
If you connect tastes to groups of people rather than to preferences in the characteristics of something, it follows that taste will have trends (as people have generations), that will tastes differ from one city to another, etc., which is what we observe.
- sotojuan 10y agoIn a lot of forums and imageboards[1] people definitely always have the "same taste", unless the forum is huge. [1] From what I can remember, 4chan's music board users have their own "accepted" artists, though a smaller group of users go against them and choose to listen to more obscure, random music (I used to fall into this category—I was a silly 17 year old). But in general, you can assume a frequent users know and likes a set of albums. Reddit might be the same, but the general subreddits are too large and the smaller ones are well, focused on a specific genre.
- sixo 10y agoA recent reddit thread had a lot of interesting material on taste: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4oiqvw/dan_brown_donates_300000_euros_to_library_to/d4dczoy https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4oiqvw/dan_brown_don...
- firasd 10y agoGreat comment there. "Taste creates groups, or at the very least polices their boundaries..."
- miraj 10y agosomewhat tangential....a contact recently gave a talk on social media echo-chamber, and how that defines/limits preferences :: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11961441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11961441