Turn The Machine Inward
Against Artsploitation | Dana Kopel
thebaffler.com
While Klein, Kingsnorth, Berardi and their co-thinkers believe themselves to be critiquing capitalism, their modest proposals and catastrophist thinking—and in the case of the latter two, their strategy of retreat from struggle—actually fit within and contribute to a broader mood of abandonment of the possibility of any type of post-capitalist
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The qualities of the Met’s new pieces—literalness, signposting, pat plotlines, an impatience with the slightest ambiguity—are key tenets of second-screen television. They are also irreconcilable with good opera, in which text and music subvert one another and pieces permit manifold interpretations. In Don Giovanni, for example, Mozart quite
... See moreAs art would no longer respond to itself, and no longer had any constraints, other human activities could be drawn from the world into its hungry maw. Art was no longer moving forward. Individual artists were free to consume the present, swallow other cultural forms, and twist them into new experiences.