Kassie King

When I get blocked in my work, I just quit.

I used to think that the best thing to do when experiencing a painting block was to put my head down and try to push straight through.

Now I try to think of the word ‘block’ from a different angle. A colon gets blocked; an artist has dry spells. A dry spell is a good sign: it means you’re working. The only... See more

Mainstream offerings are dominated by sensationalist non-fiction, formulaic and #BookTok-approved YA, and an endless parade of self-help. The few compelling books still being published for mainstream audiences occupy niche spaces, without the broad public engagement they once enjoyed. If intellectuals have always complained about the fragmentation... See more

“I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites. Because there’s a lot of really good stuff out there,” Wright said.

“The concept of the ‘definitive text’ corresponds only to religion or exhaustion.”

~ Jorge Luis Borges, The Homeric Versions

“Beauty tells you to stop thinking about yourself, and to wake up to the world of others.”

~ Roger Scruton, Confessions of a Heretic

We've collectively become so enamored with a kind of nostalgia for media that is attached to what we already know that we'll forgive pretty mediocre screenwriting and the “money people” start getting the message that people just don't care. But I think audiences do care in the long run about the quality of screenwriting even if they don't... See more

Once a dominant art form, theater ceded its cultural primacy a long ago. People still produce and even write excellent plays and musicals, even today, but it’s no longer the primary vehicle for cultural expression and innovation. It’s a niche. Similarly, film, fashion, literature, or even music as we once knew them are no longer the primary mediums... See more

Existing as an artist who makes imaginative work is certainly possible, it's just a question of what the culture chooses to pay attention to. Realistically I don’t know if the kinds of films as strange as David Lynch made will ever compete with the blockbuster tentpoles, I think it’s very possible that ship has sailed. But I also don’t really feel... See more

What this points to is a critical change in the rhythms of everyday life which occur almost as collateral damage of the development in computation and their deployment in art and media. The French philosopher Henri Lefebvre created the term ‘rhythmanalysis’ to discuss these processes. For him, to understand a society you had to analyse its rhythms... See more