In popular music, the “style of late capitalism” is NOTHING
I have written a lot about the fact that contemporary American popular culture (note that’s 5 links to 5 pieces) is increasingly shifting away from the political ontology that subtends both Western Enlightenment aesthetics (what Ranciere calls “the aesthetic regime…
The American alt-right, the British Dark Enlightenment, and the Post-Punk Tradition
My work on alt rock and the alt-right is focused very explicitly on an American context rooted in decades of right-wing backlash against a set of federal policies about employment and education opportunities referred to as “affirmative action.” Originating in…
AI has being but it does not exist – an existential approach to the difference between humans and AI
In the last few weeks Warner Music Group and Disney have partnered with AI firms, and this has left many to fret about “losing human creativity” to AI. We need to be very careful how we frame “human creativity”, because…
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