{"id":5142,"date":"2018-12-21T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/?p=5142"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:53:44","slug":"issue-8-on-authenticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/issue-8-on-authenticity\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 8 : On Authenticity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ee-big-quote wp-block-paragraph\">&ldquo;Once we see that authenticity is a positional good with its own self-radicalising dynamic, it becomes easier to understand a lot of what is going on in the culture. Most importantly, it helps us understand the motivation behind the distinction between authenticity and &lsquo;authenticity,&rsquo; or between the genuine form and the fake version. And to repeat, it has nothing to do with co-optation or selling out: it is nothing more than the difference between a form of conspicuous behaviour where the uselessness of the activity remains implicit, and one where its function as a locus of status-seeking becomes cringe-inducingly explicit.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vestoj: The Journal of Sartorial Matters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[217,1867],"class_list":["post-5142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","tag-fashion","tag-vestoj-the-journal-of-sartorial-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5144,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions\/5144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}