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Pop Culture

The Pop Culture Manifesto

William Irwin on philosophy as/and/of popular culture.

We can loosely define popular culture as artifacts and subjects of mass interest and appreciation. Popular culture does not exclude people from appreciating it on the basis of class or formal education. This is perhaps a necessary, though not a sufficient condition for popular culture. ‘Mass interest and appreciation’ is admittedly indeterminate, though hopefully not troublesome. How popular does popular have to be? No fixed answer can be given.

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