This week on Tasteland we're joined by W. David Marx, an American fashion and culture writer who works and lives in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style and Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change.Preorder Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century__W. David MarxNewsletterTwitter/XInstagram__Timestamps00:00:00 Subway tastes00:02:26 There's no song of the summer00:09:05 Skinny pants are never coming back00:12:10 Only Fads00:17:10 Fad consumerism culture, US vs Asia00:21:27 The age of the double sellout00:24:00 The 21st century crisis00:35:49 Rich enough to not have a smartphone00:41:25 Cultural roots of contemporary politics00:51:04 Everyone is a marketer00:56:37 You can't be unfamous01:01:04 Capitalism without morality__Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers.

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