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Our Obsession With Less and Its Co-option by Silicon Valley
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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
May 30, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
In this episode for Sunday Edition, we welcome Kyle Chayka to examine Silicon Valley’s taste for minimalist design. Is this just the latest development for a style that has a long history but only emerged into pop culture during the 1960s and ‘70s when a contemporary art movement emerged to propel the taste for less into a global phenomenon?Chayka's book, The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism (Bloomsbury, 2020), is a highly readable book that examines the historical precedents of minimalist design, its incarnation as contemporary art, and how it was co-opted by architecture, design, and fashion companies to represent a new, generic sense of luxury.The music for this episode is Darkstar’s “Timeaway,” which is taken from the new album News From Nowhere, courtesy of Warp Records (warp.net/artists/darkstar).Subscribe to Hyperallergic’s podcast on iTunes, and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
Released:
May 30, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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