Turn The Machine Inward
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
There’s a history to capitalism colonizing time and fixing it to its own metronome.
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Time is Water
Of course this is what museum culture does: it, depending on your point of view, loots historical artifacts from a context in which they are useful and meaningful in order to turn them into commodities, or it protects and preserves the works while making them accessible to curious citizens of the world. Your own perspective on this might switch, de
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When we ask “what do we do with the art of monstrous men?” we are putting ourselves into a static role—the role of consumer. Passing the problem on to the consumer is how capitalism works.
Claire Dederer • Monsters
Economic constraints in production are often said to be the main reason, but it seems to me that something spiritual is also missing. It would be stupid to turn my back on the times in which we live and act arrogant about it all, but I always find myself thinking that the old cartoon movies were indeed more interesting and exciting than what we hav
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