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The prestige recession
kev added
Instead, art and culture have been safely neutralized as interchangeable commercial objects just like everything else.
At its best, cultural criticism is love and art that exists to give love to other expressions of art. It’s beautiful in its indulgence. A positive feedback loop that gives everybody exactly what they desire. Gods, scribes, muses, an audience, a culmination. This is what we want out of art. Something that feels grand, meaningful, connected to the ages. That doesn’t happen on its own. It needs context, dedicated space, deeper knowledge, appreciation.
- The social returns to prescient taste and committed fandom just went up dramatically. This dynamic will upend how cultural trends are born, financed, grow and die, change marketing and community building, and turbocharge the value of influence. It will also create a backlash to the financialization of every aspect of creativity, and leave us to gra... See more
from Proof of Passion by Jonathan Glick
sari added
A lack of audience awareness isn’t rejection. Sometimes it really is as simple as no one has put enough coins in the machine to make it go. I know people in every creative industry: film, television, music, fashion, architecture, publishing, art, social media, nightlife and marketing (if you deign to include it). What unifies all of them at the mom
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