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The problem here is our obsession with popularity. We’ve been imbued with popularity contests since the beginning of our social lives. We’ve been primed to assess cultural output by how many others liked it. Movie and music studios, fashion conglomerates, publishers, social media, and other cultural industries generate efficient formulas to create ... See more
Ana Andjelic • Taste in progress
Is Theater Criticism Dead? Jesse Green, NYT, and the Future of Reviews
youtube.comThis is a good essay trying to make sense of Oliver Roy's somewhat odd book "The Crisis of Culture." I keep saying this, but it's difficult to make proclamations about the state of culture when the word "culture" means too many things at once.
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W. David Marxx.comMy final installment in advocating for a "cultural ecosystem" approach to cultural criticism that would be more inclusive than poptimism.
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W. David Marxx.comCulture, Digested: Goodbye to All Those Things Over There
Jessa Crispintheculturewedeserve.substack.com
None of these reviews mentioned anything about a controversy concerning the film’s content; the critics, like the film’s white audiences, seemed unaware of any unfairness in its depiction of blacks, even when they had to pass through a crowd of black demonstrators to reach the theater.
Gary Krist • The Mirage Factory
The art of the past no longer exists as it once did. Its authority is lost. In its place there is a language of images. What matters now is who uses that language for what purpose. This touches upon questions of copyright for reproduction, the ownership of art presses and publishers, the total policy of public art galleries and museums. As usually
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