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Grosz and Heartfield, as line soldiers during the war, would also send one another postcards on which they had made small, satirical montages whose point, not being verbal, was easily overlooked by the military censors.
Robert Hughes • The Shock of the New
less impetus to decide for ourselves what to look for, follow, and, perhaps most important, save.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
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One effect of this imposition of an input/output model is a homogenization of inner experience and the contents of communication networks, and an unproblematic reduction of the infinite amorphousness of mental life to digital formats.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
So the drift away from encouraging the new art began well before Lenin’s burial; whereupon Stalin made anything that was not mass art a State crime. In his eye, the Constructivists were bourgeois formalists – specks of free imagination in the ocean of his new Russia. Some died in the purges, the rest were deprived of work by his apparatchiks; and s
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While this shift has lowered many cultural barriers to entry, since anyone can make their work public online, it has also resulted in a kind of tyranny of real-time data.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
GD Dess • Cultural Dopes
The exalting of the mass has always been about the financialization of large demographics,