Culture and Society
Partly because it doesn’t claim to be logical, or even reasonable, taste accomplishes powerful cultural provocation and persuasion.” (Ben Highmore, ‘Bitter Tastes’, in A Passion for Cultural Studies, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, p.21).
What social and cultural structures lie behind the seemingly ‘illogical’ or ‘unanswerable’ element of taste?
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What social and cultural structures lie behind the seemingly ‘illogical’ or ‘unanswerable’ element of taste?