Methodology · Cultural Capital
How each plate counts
Three questions on every plate. Two of them make the score.
What is it?
a painting, France, 19th centurya painting, Japan, 17th centurya print, Germany, 16th centurya drawing, Italy, 18th centuryI don’t know
Right, wrong, or “I don’t know”. Guessing scores nothing.
Which word?
beautifulinterestingmeaninglessugly
Choosing “interesting” is the distanced gaze.
How does it land?
12345
Never scored. Read against itself, below.
Decodinghalf+Distanced gazehalf=The score
What stands against what
Each reading sets one group of plates against another. Tap one to see its plates below.
Typical readerMost readers
Every plate
Tap a reading above, a word here, or a country on the map. Each one narrows the others.
Reading: The score
Every plate counts toward the score: what it is, and which word fits it.
The world’s art · 93 plates
156 plates
Where the plates come from
The more plates from a country, the stronger its shade. Tap one to see them.
12–34–910–2930+
The United States, by state
Plates from a region count in every country it covers.
Bourdieu’s subjects
Twenty-one subjects from Bourdieu’s Distinction. Each line is “beautiful”, from the least schooled to the most.
Falls with schoolingscored in reverse
Where the wrong answers come from
Each kind of object takes its wrong answers from its own places.
Its plates come fromIts wrong answers can name