Getting away with it
It speaks to the fact that as individuals, we’re all expected to perform at the same scale as major brands. We're supposed to have monetizable output at all times. We can't have hobbies that are meaningless. Everything we do has to be a product.
You can't even express an interest in a particular social cultural landscape without somebody asking you ... See more
You can't even express an interest in a particular social cultural landscape without somebody asking you ... See more
New Media IRL: "New Release" by Yacht
A writer can still write while hiding from the thought police. But a writer who carries the thought police around in his head, who always feels compelled to ask: Can I say this? Do I have a right? Is my terminology correct? Will my allies get angry? Will it help my enemies? Will it get me ratioed on Twitter?—that writer’s work will soon become life
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Refusing to take up the burden of how one’s art may make innumerable, heterogeneous, essentially uncontrollable others feel does not to me signify ethical failure.
Maggie Nelson • On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Today, surrealism, our “super reality” according to artistic leader André Breton, is our coping mechanism. collective “fuck it.” Fighting absurdity with absurdity.