What is "culture"? And how did a metaphor from gardening invade social-science discourse in 19th-century Germany and America and then take the world by storm? Am I doing "podcast culture" right now?
However you define it, I make the case that it is the defining myth of our time, and that we should get rid of it.
Image: "Old New York" diorama, Museum of Natural History, New York
Suggested reading: Michael A. Elliott, "The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism"
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