"Over the last 100 years, the corrosive byproduct of the machines of cultural production has bathed like smog over all of us, radically obscuring our vision. We can call this byproduct cultural capital." (pg 83)
I love this quote. It is explaining that the street artists and protests and other methods evolved into something more like social media ran by corporations and the rich, and thus it is not the same as in the past. I like how they explain that it is a cause of cultural capital and how technology molds the way we are activists and how these are controlled by rich and the elite corporations and thus they are obscuring our views and visions by controlling the platforms.
"This is what Bourdieu called the habitus. This is the way one navigates and thinks about the world."
I like how this explains how we view the world through social constructs such as social media and how mass media or changes in technology through cultural capital can mold our views and beliefs, in this case through corporate entities instead of in the past through more primitive methods. This is like the first example but in addition they define this as the habitus or how we see the social world. (pg. 85)
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