Criticism, Art, Essays, Constellations Allison Hewitt Ward Criticism, Art, Essays, Constellations Allison Hewitt Ward

On 80064

I do not like 80064. I do not like watching it over and over again for the purpose of this essay. It’s pornographic raw tape of the unmediated real deal. Bullying an old man is a lazy stand-in for the work of art. It would be better to live in in a world in which this video does not exist. But it does.

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Essays, Reflections, Art Caesura Essays, Reflections, Art Caesura

Caesura Roundtable: The NFT

The NFT phenomenon is a social, not technological, phenomenon emerging from the new money of the 21st century — the tech sector — working out its own culture and aesthetic tastes as an alternative to the self-critical or self-defeating aesthetic culture that has been dominant since the emergence of liberal society in the 19th century.

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