Turn The Machine Inward
What is wrong with online shopping of modern clothing brands:
Chris Frantz • Buying clothes online is still painful. Here’s what needs to change.
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An ideal production of Freitag aus Licht would not be afraid to actively undermine the ideologies that underpin Stockhausen’s aesthetic vision. It would not shy away from denouncing and Evan ridiculing the composer and his nauseating beliefs. It would acknowledge and actively decry the opera’s racism while transforming its message from one of oppre... See more
Callum John Blackmore • Freaky ‘Freitag’
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The same thing that is happening to journalism, to restaurants, to bookstores to Hollywood, to everything beautiful and interesting in this country, is happening to art. Jobs are disappearing. Venture Capital funds are getting involved. In early 2020, 1,350 jobs were cut at American museums. What was barely profitable is now being gutted with the g... See more
What Do We Do With The Big Business Of Immersive Art? | Defector
Stephen Black added
There’s a history to capitalism colonizing time and fixing it to its own metronome.
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Time is Water
Keely Adler added
The furusato fantasy offers one view on the fusion of commerce and the countryside, but it doesn’t really land in the West, especially in America. Here, capitalism and pastoralism are often seen as opposing forces. So, too, personal benefit and collective good.
theatlantic.com • The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing
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Joachim Baan and added
You may have noticed that every popular movie these days is a remake, reboot, sequel, spinoff, or cinematic universe expansion. People blame this trend on greedy movie studios or dumb moviegoers or competition from Netflix or humanity running out of ideas. Some say it’s a sign of the end of movies. Others claim there’s nothing new about this a... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
Culture industry roles were once much more coherent, the lines of power much more concrete. Figures like Anna Wintour and Rick Rubin gesture at this recent past. They were middle men connecting financial capital (businesses) with cultural capital (artists) to create social capital (cultural institutions). Fashion and literary editors, film and tele
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