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Grant McCracken (@grant27 | cultureby.com) is an anthropologist. He’s been director of the Institute of Contemporary Culture, senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School, and research affiliate at C3 at MIT. He’s the author of Culture and Consumption, Culture and Consumption II, Plenitude, Big Hair, The Long Interview, Flock and Flow, Transformations and Chief Culture Officer.

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Fresh from #ContactCon in New York, the gang connects with Deanna Zandt (@randomdeanna) and Dorian Taylor (@doriantaylor) to talk about privilege, taxonomies, social media alchemy, and the economics of cultural production.

Notes and Links:

• Christopher Alexander on A Pattern Language
• Deanna Zandt: “we walk in many worlds and belong to none“
• Creative Generalist
• Everything is Miscellaneous
• Prototype theory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin and Susan Squier
• Dorian Taylor on “Moving Society Past Information Hegemony“
• The Tyranny of Structureless
• Kevin Marks: “taxonomies are a hangover from the physical world“
• Kavin Marks: “says @doriantaylor ‘so I’m working with a directed graph’ ‘you mean a tree?’ ‘no I mean a graph’“
• Kevin Marks: “says @randomdeanna “privilege is a headache that you don’t know you don’t have” @heathr Like having an Apple experience, not Windows“
• Heather Gold: “I just asked: how much of privilege is only knowing one taxonomy?“
• Heather Gold: “‘Real communities are there before you actually need them.’ -@debs #tummel (you can’t parachute in and have ppl just respond)“
• David Graeber “On Playing By The Rules – The Strange Success Of #OccupyWallStreet“
• Kevin Marks on “Emergent Aristocracy“
• Tony Comstock on “Climax Ecology: Learning to See the Forest for the Trees“
• Feministe: Steven Greenstreet proves he’s definitely not a misogynist by making rape jokes
• CyborgCamp2010-SallyApplin | Strange Love Live (Talk Show) on blip.tv

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A just-in-the-family episode featuring a deep discussion of the Occupy Wall Street movement with Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz.

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Sarah Szalavitz (@dearsarah) does social design under her company Robot7 and teaches at the MIT Media Lab. Her background was in law and then Hollywood. A self-described “champagne socialist,” she did deals for Michael Eisner’s web video venture Veoh and has been one of the key people connecting filmed entertainment to the network economy. Her focus is now much broader than Hollywood and she focuses on systems and questions. As she says “now everyone makes media….how do we encourage people to participate.”

Storified notes from the conversation are here.

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Eli Pariser is an online organizer and disorganizer, the former Executive Director of MoveOn (and now the board president), a co-founder of Avaaz.org, and the author of The Filter Bubble.

This week on TummelVision, Eli joins Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz to talk about his book, the governance of the Internet, and online culture.

News and Notes:

• Watch Eli Pariser’s TED talk about the Filter Bubble
• Kevin Marks: “Call off the Search“
• David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction“
• Louis Gray’s blog post: “Why The Filter Bubble Is No Bubble and It’s Not Bad Either“
• Kevin Marks: “There are no influencers. There are only ways of looking at people as influencers.”
• October 20 in New York: Contact Summit 2011: The Evolution Will Be Social
• Mathew Ingram at GigaOm: “Do We Have Too Many Filters, Or Not Enough?“

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