The artist and the inner retreat
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The artist and the inner retreat
Being a creator today is lonely and isolating. It feels like we are forced to participate in a platform economy that places creators in competition against each other for followers and attention.
Severin Matusek • After the Creator Economy
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After the Creator Economy
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the way of the artist-entrepreneur — kening zhu
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[EXT] The-Lead: Building & Creativity in the Age of AI
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That labor amounts to constant self-promotion in the form of cheap trend-following, ever-changing posting strategies, and the nagging feeling that what you are really doing with your time is marketing, not art. Under the tyranny of algorithmic media distribution, artists, authors — anyone whose work concerns itself with what it means to be human — ... See more
Rebecca Jennings • Everybody Has to Self-Promote Now. Nobody Wants To.
Being an artist within an economic system that favors private property, capital accumulation, wage labor, a price system, and competitive markets belittles my practice into a hobby. I am an amateur with no artist statement, thesis show, or MFA. The money I invest in creating art is a temporary loan to myself that I feel pressured to repay quickly b... See more
Cortney Cassidy • A soft manifesto
An artist is one who does something better than it needs to be done for any foreseeable return to herself. Thus she is in the spirit of gift.
Charles Eisenstein • Inverting the Energy Paradigm
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Creative work gets lost if you don't have a platform to discover budding talent.
Tyler Cowen • Thoughts in Between: exploring how technology collides with politics, culture and society on Apple Podcasts
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