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Erik Satie Three Piece Suite | Fitzcarraldo Editions
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On the other side of our algorithmic anxiety is a state of numbness.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Avant-Garde and Kitsch
It explores the contrasting concepts of avant-garde and kitsch in culture, examining their societal implications, artistic significance, and the impact of industrialization on cultural value and experience.
cpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.comIn its peremptory reductiveness, it celebrates a hallucination of presence, of an unalterable permanence composed of incessant, frictionless operations. It belongs to the aftermath of a common life made into the object of technics.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Back in 1989, the American philosopher Francis Fukuyama already noted that we had arrived in an era where life has been reduced to “economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.”
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
