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The influence process for radical art is always an uphill struggle: works begin as an esoteric idiolect—symbols and ideas spoken and understood by a single person.

To create within the framework of someone else’s stereotype makes the creator an epigone, and their work is mere “taste.”

Most subcultural and countercultural innovation thus begins as bricolage—the mixing and matching of preexisting styles and objects to imbue them with new meanings.

Teenagers in London’s working-class neighborhoods asked their local tailors to replicate the Savile Row look, while extending the long jackets to dramatic zoot-suit length

A parvenu won’t just drive a Porsche but will also live in a luxury condo and enroll her children in the top private schools.