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The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech
William Deresiewiczamazon.comWhat artists really need, writes Amy Whitaker in Art Thinking, “is not to be paid to make the things they already know how to make, but to somehow find space inside their financials to play and take risks to develop the next thing.”
William Deresiewicz • The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech
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The cycle is dizzying and numbing: The allure of authenticity invites fascination and then, inevitably, skepticism. All along, truth and trust aren’t celebrated; they’re destabilized.
Spencer Kornhaber • TikTok Killed the Video Star
“There Has to Be a Line”: Substack’s Founders Dive Headfirst Into the Culture Wars
Joe Pompeovanityfair.com
Search engines, social networks, content platforms, publications with influence, word of mouth—none of them work unless people engage and amplify. That “amplification” looks very different from channel to channel, of course. In word of mouth, it’s literally whether someone talks or types about you. With publications, it’s whether their editor(s)... See more