Post 9hqFnfCiELCEPMeBkm by miya@letsalllovela.in
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 (DIR) Post #9hqF3jqGecbZTJFZ0S by miya@letsalllovela.in
       2019-04-15T19:46:35.053511Z
       
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       The cultural expression of algamic capitalism — that future breed absent crippling copyright/IP protection legislation — can be found in Korea's brandless fashion culture. Trends are followed widely in Korea and change seasonally with notable reflexivity. Only 3-5 specific silhoulettes for each gender are identifiable on a crowded street as taste evolves together, amorphously with the seasons cycle. Whether new trends find their wellspring from haute coutoure shows, celebrity style, avant-garde art kids or simple mass industry manipulations, they flow almost immediately downstream.Unlike the West, clothing is not produced and sold under specific, known brands or designers, with the characteristic quality or style that traditionally justified brand trademarking - instead they're produced anonymously in factories, design sent in and product returned. Often, if the design looks good, the factory will keep it for themselves and reproduce their own verison with changed tags. Copyright is null.Underground megastores carry many subtle variations of the current trending archetypes, whose best expressions can be found on the mannequins frontlining the stores, which less street-savvy shoppers employ to track current trend. Individuals can express themselves safely within the trend boundaries through selection of what is more or less uncurated variation. The market has learned to teach trend awareness to even its most disengaged customers. An aside: From what I gather, this is paralleled in China, only with an apparent standard deviation drop in taste.
       
 (DIR) Post #9hqFnfCiELCEPMeBkm by miya@letsalllovela.in
       2019-04-15T19:54:53.003242Z
       
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       This is the capitalism copyright stole from us. The free market is felt vividly in Asian cities, true competition between bars, shops, cafes, services uncrippled by our taxes, licenses and regulations. This expresses itself just as sharply in the creative sphere, unhindered by artificial, regressive intellectual property laws. In Shenzen, a shopper can find any kind of hardware they want at cut-throat prices, or have hyper-specific models commissioned by largely automated factories (often to sell to shoppers): designs are copied freely, information flows unrestricted, evolving rapidly; innovation is frequent, prices rapidly drive downward while the market thrives. The US, instead, enforces artificial monopolies, leaving you to a very small selection of price-gouging megabrands, choking its own market and all potential for information.The urbanism model employed in Seoul's non-central neighborhoods is exemplary: mid-rise stacks, 3-4 stories high; on each floor: 4-6 restaurants/shops occupying ever corner, a central staircase and shared restroom. Extremely cost-effective and high density, allowing for serious competition in any consumer area. Asian cities pack more bars & restaurants in a single neighborhood than many major American cities do across their entire city (Maybe not LA/NYC, but Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, Atlanta, etc.).The same market mechanisms and regulation-less environment are tellingly at play in the street fashion environment: the ugliness, banality, repetitiveness, tastelessness and limitedness of Western street fashion, all sold at premium, in contrast to liveliness, variety, good taste and availability of the East is a direct product of its genuinely free market. This is what the unadulterated info-market looks like, what was stolen and replaced by a hollow, dead structure.
       
 (DIR) Post #9hqGjf3UwOVQk7zbdo by 361.xj9@social.sunshinegardens.org
       2019-04-15T20:05:20.718556Z
       
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       @miya yaas queen preach 🙏