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What is Cultivated Identity?

What is Cultivated Identity?

A primer on how consumption is marketed as “who we are”
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Peter Coffin
We Are All Toxic Fans

We Are All Toxic Fans

Whether we know it or not.
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Peter Coffin
Is Everything a Consumable?

Is Everything a Consumable?

How our consumptive behaviors are masked as culture and why it should disturb you at least a little…
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Peter Coffin
No Man’s Expectations

No Man’s Expectations

Why cultivated identities inevitably turn on the cultivators
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Peter Coffin
Pro-Consumer? Or Pro-Consumption?

Pro-Consumer? Or Pro-Consumption?

If we want to talk about how identity is constantly cultivated to encourage consumption, then we have to talk about the environment that…
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Peter Coffin
Products “For Men” Are Harming Men.

Products “For Men” Are Harming Men.

Are we cultivating toxic masculinity — or is it something else?
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Peter Coffin
How Toxic Fandom Ruins It For Everyone

How Toxic Fandom Ruins It For Everyone

When people accept an identity marketed to them, it’s a recipe for nothing but disaster.
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Peter Coffin
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