{"id":5031,"date":"2011-12-19T21:12:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T02:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5031"},"modified":"2011-12-19T21:12:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T02:12:06","slug":"kurt-andersen-from-fashion-to-housewares-are-we-in-a-decades-long-design-rut-style-vanity-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/19\/kurt-andersen-from-fashion-to-housewares-are-we-in-a-decades-long-design-rut-style-vanity-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Andersen: From Fashion to Housewares, Are We in a Decades-Long Design Rut? &#124; Style &#124; Vanity Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We seem to have trapped ourselves in a vicious cycle\u2014economic progress and innovation stagnated, except in information technology; which leads us to embrace the past and turn the present into a pleasantly eclectic for-profit museum; which deprives the cultures of innovation of the fuel they need to conjure genuinely new ideas and forms; which deters radical change, reinforcing the economic (and political) stagnation. I\u2019ve been a big believer in historical pendulum swings\u2014American sociopolitical cycles that tend to last, according to historians, about 30 years. So maybe we are coming to the end of this cultural era of the Same Old Same Old. As the baby-boomers who brought about this ice age finally shuffle off, maybe America and the rich world are on the verge of a cascade of the wildly new and insanely great. Or maybe, I worry some days, this is the way that Western civilization declines, not with a bang but with a long, nostalgic whimper.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2012\/01\/prisoners-of-style-201201\">Kurt Andersen: From Fashion to Housewares, Are We in a Decades-Long Design Rut? | Style | Vanity Fair<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We seem to have trapped ourselves in a vicious cycle\u2014economic progress and innovation stagnated, except in information technology; which leads us to embrace the past and turn the present into a pleasantly eclectic for-profit museum; which deprives the cultures of innovation of the fuel they need to conjure genuinely new ideas and forms; which deters &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/19\/kurt-andersen-from-fashion-to-housewares-are-we-in-a-decades-long-design-rut-style-vanity-fair\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kurt Andersen: From Fashion to Housewares, Are We in a Decades-Long Design Rut? &#124; Style &#124; Vanity Fair&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}