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The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han review – how big tech altered the narrative
Mon 19 Feb 2024 03.00 AEDT
In Charlie Kaufman’s puppet animation Anomalisa, everyone looks and speaks the same. It’s as though a scene in an earlier Kaufman-penned film, Being John Malkovich, in which Malkovich surveys a restaurant from his table and
... See moreBut what exactly is taste? The dictionary says it’s the ability to discern what is of good quality or of a high aesthetic standard . But who sets that standard? Taste may be subjective, but within a given culture or co... See more
Taste Is Eating Silicon Valley.
You don’t make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room. That ’s a warehouse. What makes a museum great is the stuff that’s not on the walls.
Jason Fried • Rework
Many creative people think these are the only options—both for them and their audience. Either they give the audience what it wants (the entertainer’s job) or else they put demands on the public (that’s where art begins).
Ted Gioia • The State of the Culture, 2024
that “a work of art is something new in the world that changes the world to allow itself to exist.”