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Culture for Pigs
When hating clout and mediocrity betrays an obsession with clout and mediocrity.
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Dead Air
Internet-born analog horror intensifies the uncanny with familiar, obsolete media.
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Tolkien and the Nature of Making
Industrial modernity is J.R.R. Tolkien’s arch-nemesis, but his work might contain unexpected forgiveness for the juggernaut of late-capitalism wresting his world.
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Drawn to the Deep
Of places of passage between this world and another, between the beginning and the end.
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JT LeRoy Never Existed, But He Lived
JT LeRoy has been called by some the great literary hoax of the 2000s, but for creator Laura Albert, he never went away.
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The Coney Island Art Fair
Art shows risk nothing to monumentalize the oppressed. But Coney Island offers you that investment on a plate, as slice-of-life.
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The Mirror of Language
The age of thinking machines will be a new age of mystics extracting truth from hidden worlds.
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The Work of Beauty
Artists should reject the demolition brigade that has dominated the artistic fields in the last century.
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Creative Machinery
DALL-E shows us a future of art without artists.
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The Internet is a Dead Texan
The sinister ambience of doomscrolling.
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