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[...] Across disciplines undergoing "cognitive turns," key concepts were thus reinterpreted as filtering methods, which protected limited minds from overload. Cognitive anthropology, for instance, reconceptualized culture and classification as an adaptive technique for coping with an overwhelming w…

Mythological discourse is conventionally understood to be concerned with form over content abstract types over concrete instances. Roland Barthes (1972, 143) has argued that myths' abstraction lets them function as "depoliticized speech": by tying together timeless cosmic orders and ordinary histor…

Mythological discourse is conventionally understood to be concerned with form over content abstract types over concrete instances. Roland Barthes (1972, 143) has argued that myths' abstraction lets them function as "depoliticized speech": by tying together timeless cosmic orders and ordinary histor…

We have no shortage of explanations that place the blame at the foot of capitalism itself: in the ceaseless production of desire that capital demands. The musicologist Eric Drott (2018c, 333), for instance, convincingly argues that the promotional materials for music streaming services "transfigure…

Chapter 6, "Parks and Recommendation," builds on that discussion of space by examining a set of spatial metaphors commonly used by the makers of music recommendation: pastoral metaphors that figure technical workers as gardeners or park rangers who tend to the music space and the listeners who trav…