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Julian Stallabrass, Memories of the Present, NLR 148, July–August 2024
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The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
youtube.comHyperconnectivity in the cultural realm promises abundance, decommodification and democratization. Everyone has at their fingertips an infinitely rich and varieduniverse of cultural products. New cultural forms and innovative practices have proliferated. Much digital culture is freely shared rather than bought and sold. And ever-expanding circles o
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the internet is the precarious reservation onto which culture has been driven, bleak and uncanny, inhuman in scale.
Simplicio • The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth
Emphasizing the visuals of ruination offers an emotional buffer from the economic, political, and social issues that lead to ruin’s rise.
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
“ping minimalism” ; small acts of digital resistance underpinned by the idea that attention is the most valuable asset we have, and must be protected at all cost.
Alexi Gunner • idle gaze 067: slowpunk
Orientalism
Cultural production is ever more finely attuned to attention, which is ever more pervasively measured and monetized. Commerce and culture are locked in an ever-tighter embrace.
ROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
For all its good intentions, art that tries to minister to its audience by showcasing moral aspirants and paragons or the abject victims of political oppression produces smug, tiresome works that are failures both as art and as agitprop. Artists and critics—their laurel bearers—should take heed.