The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech

One of the radical political possibilities of our new, revelatory expanse of “free” time—as many have noted—is that it might create a collective demand to reassess and reconfigure, as a society, how we protect the rights of those whose work exists only in the present moment, without security or protection against unknown futures, the most obvious u

We are reaching the point where we have to ask not only whether works of larger significance and reach can still be created, but also whether audiences—readers, viewers, listeners—would still know how to take them in if they were.

Qu’y a-t-il de commun entre un musicien, un photographe et un journaliste ? Tous les trois créent un contenu original (un morceau, une photo, un article), le cèdent à un grand groupe (majors du disque ou des médias, agence), sont de moins en moins bien payés pour leur œuvre, que le grand groupe en question arrive de plus en plus difficilement à ven