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Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
Culture: An Owner's Manualculture.ghost.ioBut this obviously contributed to a feeling of decline in the long-run, because mass culture continued to do the thing it always does: avoid artistic innovation in order to maximize profit. But once poptimism established that only the mainstream "mattered," it set up audiences to judge the health of culture on its least artistic output. If we have... See more
The Missing Piece in Conversations about “Cultural Decline”
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.
Yancey Strickler • The prestige recession
how to be a critic.
substack.comCriticism, to me, is ultimately a practice of paying attention.