The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization

Poetry, Art, and the New Spirit of Capitalism

Updating Walter Benjamin -- whose famous essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' on which the title of his book riffs -- poet and critic Jasper Bernes seeks nothing less than a complete reconsideration of poetry and art over the past 50 years, coinciding with the ...
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The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization

Punk Preempts the Post-Popstar Age

Prosumption and Celebrity within Neoliberal Economics

“maybe they’re born with it. maybe they watched loads of YouTube tutorials.” So reads the SoundCloud page description of Internet-native photographer, artist, and musician Arvida Byström. In the 1977 issue of the UK fanzine Sideburns, the punk movement was once instructed, “this is a chord, this is another, this is a ...
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Punk Preempts the Post-Popstar Age