People are SO resistant to systemic critique. I have run into it when discussing COVID mitigation, AI, social media "addiction," so many other issues that people would prefer to believe are caused by individuals behaving badly rather than by external structures and incentives. If you even point out the systemic nature of these things, people lash out and call it a 'justification' for behavior they'd rather morally condemn. And targeting a singular boogeyman feels so much more satisfying that acknowledging if we want, say, AI to stop having a negative environmental impact or impact on artists, we'd need to do something about capitalism and imperialism first.
communicating the ‘mechanics’ is necessary but not sufficient to get the work done. what makes it worth the effort is some sort of ‘integrity’—and that’s what i think art is (regardless of commodification/consumption).
it’s the classic bind. the audience might not want the thing that has truth/integrity for you, but that’s the only thing worth spending time on.
art is always going to piss off the audience. if 100% of your audience loves 100% of what you do then that’s fandom.
I've been reading Radical History and the Politics of Art lately... it's a really interesting read, and Gabriel makes the point over and over that the distinction between "real art" and "common art" or "political art" and "sell-out art" requires that one has an ontological view of "art" and "politics" in the first place. Go to a fancy art gallery and see the "high art political art" to see one example of this, where personally I would find punk rock (low art political art) to be much more politically fulfilling. In either case, it presupposes our own understanding of the thing beforehand, we start in the middle as such when we make that type of observation.
I've been thinking a lot about narrative control over the internet and through media lately... I'm going to write about it soon and I'll link you it when it's all done up (gotta protect your ideas in our latest height of Capitalism and all)... but yeah I do think you're one of the "good ones" in this internet machine reality. Keep it up, hombre!
People are SO resistant to systemic critique. I have run into it when discussing COVID mitigation, AI, social media "addiction," so many other issues that people would prefer to believe are caused by individuals behaving badly rather than by external structures and incentives. If you even point out the systemic nature of these things, people lash out and call it a 'justification' for behavior they'd rather morally condemn. And targeting a singular boogeyman feels so much more satisfying that acknowledging if we want, say, AI to stop having a negative environmental impact or impact on artists, we'd need to do something about capitalism and imperialism first.
Yes! You're reading my mind, Devon!
communicating the ‘mechanics’ is necessary but not sufficient to get the work done. what makes it worth the effort is some sort of ‘integrity’—and that’s what i think art is (regardless of commodification/consumption).
it’s the classic bind. the audience might not want the thing that has truth/integrity for you, but that’s the only thing worth spending time on.
art is always going to piss off the audience. if 100% of your audience loves 100% of what you do then that’s fandom.
I've been reading Radical History and the Politics of Art lately... it's a really interesting read, and Gabriel makes the point over and over that the distinction between "real art" and "common art" or "political art" and "sell-out art" requires that one has an ontological view of "art" and "politics" in the first place. Go to a fancy art gallery and see the "high art political art" to see one example of this, where personally I would find punk rock (low art political art) to be much more politically fulfilling. In either case, it presupposes our own understanding of the thing beforehand, we start in the middle as such when we make that type of observation.
I've been thinking a lot about narrative control over the internet and through media lately... I'm going to write about it soon and I'll link you it when it's all done up (gotta protect your ideas in our latest height of Capitalism and all)... but yeah I do think you're one of the "good ones" in this internet machine reality. Keep it up, hombre!