Rio Roye — A Public Feeling
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Rio Roye — A Public Feeling
The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
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There is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification that is happening to the emotions too, with a similarly homogenising, whitening, deadening effect. Amidst the glossiness of late capitalism, we are fed the notion that all difficult feeling - depression, anxiety, loneliness, rage - are simply a consequence of unse
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what if our distress is a perfectly normal response to a society that’s lost its way? What if unfettered capitalism is making us sick?
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Art can be an emotional trigger for larger and deeper dialogues. It can blur the boundaries between things, the boundaries between us and the boundaries between the world and self. Still we rarely see art and economy as subjects deeply unified in the same study or mechanism.