The cost of culture

“…In our fetishism of openness at all costs — that is, at no cost — we’ve forgotten the actual, physical, inescapably tangible costs of creating what we designate by the ethereal term ‘culture’.”

A fascinating article from Maria Popova’s blog www.brainpickings.org about Astra Taylor’s important book The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age 

http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/05/the-peoples-platform-astra-taylor/?mc_cid=62a64daceb&mc_eid=fde38af458