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How Capitalism Gaslit a Generation of Creatives
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When you’re madly in love, you have the revelation that everything that has ever come before that—every insomniac night, every journal entry, every subtle rehearsal of a life you didn’t yet know how to live—was an imitation.
What should you do when you're madly in love?
There’s always an imaginary other, a “model reader” (to use Umberto Eco’s useful expression) who’s there in the corner of your mind. To write a novel or a poem, they say, you need to have a sense of a reader: your mental picture doesn’t have to be exact or personalized, but no work exists without an imaginary third participant. There’s always you,
... See morethe process—thinking, making, critique—proved transformative. The school wasn’t teaching design as ornamentation or styling. Instead, it was an intense course in principled thinking and creating connections between fields of art and making. It forced you to depart from your comfort zone and expertise as an artist and then return to apply it with ne
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I had the autonomy to try and the freedom to fail. It became a personal, private project, with all the excitement of secrecy and all the nobility of ownership.