The prestige recession
The prestige recession
ystrickler.com
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.
I don’t think we’ve ever needed genuine works of art — imaginative creations that press us to see the world in larger or at least different ways than our standard everyday media-navigation categories allow — more than we do now. But our current resources are few, because of the ways the major art-related organizations have lost any discernible sens... See more
ayjay • art for humanity’s sake – The Homebound Symphony
David Pennington added
When it comes to art/ literature, airing on the side of the older typically seems to do us better. But the idea of criticism and gatekeeping is keeping some of the best ideas in a box.
Just because it doesn’ twork with your mentality doesn’t mean it’s not the lifesaver someone else is looking for.
As a writer and culture critic, I operate at the intersection between these corporations and the mass audience. My influence is limited, but if I don’t play a part in trying to revitalize and refresh our artistic idioms, I will have wasted much of the potential of my vocation.
This is why, for example, I listen to so much new music and read so many ... See more
This is why, for example, I listen to so much new music and read so many ... See more
Ted Gioia • My 12 Favorite Problems
Emily Li added
If I think back to those corporate meetings I was part of early in my career, it’s easy to see today’s decision-making. A decade ago cultural criticism was a sparkly pixie dust you could spread over a business to give it a veneer of prestige. But in a world where TikToks dwarf all over forms of consumption and a video that someone spent a day makin... See more
The prestige recession
Alex Dobrenko added
Shuherk cast the rise of curatorial accounts like his as a failure of the legacy-media ecosystem. The job of providing well-informed recommendations once belonged to professional critics employed by newspapers and magazines. As media companies have struggled to adjust to the digital age, the number of full-time criticism jobs has dwindled, leaving ... See more
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Agalia Tan added
in relation to the prestige recession
I Am Going to Miss Pitchfork, but That’s Only Half the Problem
https://www.nytimes.com/by/ezra-kleinnytimes.com
Sterling Proffer and added
As we’ve pushed past the dawn of this so-called creator renaissance, however, and the sun starts to loom high in the sky, I’ve found myself wondering where it all goes.
I still think that the new models that have been, and continue to be, developed today can offer creators stability and financial freedom in a way that the gig life does not. Bu... See more
I still think that the new models that have been, and continue to be, developed today can offer creators stability and financial freedom in a way that the gig life does not. Bu... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • The creator economy
Sixian added
I’ve been thinking about the enduring, perhaps increasing currency of personal recommendations (practically artisanal craft now if you think about it!) as well as the value of connoisseurship and curation in a culture where unthinking automation has left us feeling drowned in a deluge of content.
I suspect that’s the core appeal of all the influenc... See more
I suspect that’s the core appeal of all the influenc... See more