Bourdieu's theory of taste: a grumbling abrégé (2023)

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204784

> lower-class people are in a sort of local maxima

If the writer knew that the correct term is “maximum” (singular) and misused the Latin on purpose, this is brilliant. Failing that, it’s still a wonderful inadvertent enactment of the thesis. Well done either way.

Slightly surprised to learn Master and Commander is “lowbrow”—is it just because it’s not an art film or whatever? Usually I’d expect Marvel films to be described that way (unfairly imo, when it comes to the Phase One batch at least)…

He sees through his beer purchases but he doesn't see through his seeing through them.