Author of Blank Space, Ametora, and Status and Culture. Newsletter at http://culture.ghost.io. Tokyo, Japan.
W. David Marx
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I’m actually not sure we can come back from “prediction markets for war crimes”, as a society. I think this might be it for us.
Til mine dansktalende venner
www.foljeton.dk/post/rygtern...
"How can he say there's no creativity when there's [a very interesting artist who is in no way a household name, which is my point]!"
I never make the claim that there's fewer creative people, just that there is less innovation *in the system* and less from the representative stars of our era
One of the challenges of writing a cultural history of the 21st century is that you have to recognize the following reality about what people see as "culture" today
I know I brought this upon myself by writing a sprawling book, but I feel like 75% of the debates about BLANK SPACE are people arguing against a summary of a summary of what I actually wrote
Not to go all Harold Bloom, but the stronger artists of the next generation always reshape the history to explain their own emergence. Joy Division explained the subsequent decades of music in a way that Christopher Cross couldn't.
Interestingly, a similar thesis was made by this book, though not as a positive thing: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/769187...
The author's claim was that once you equate fame/wealth with success (above e.g. artistry, insightfulness) many things go to shit.
Julia Carrie Wong
«But they could bond over their shared contempt for liberal decency».
God bok!
Robin Williams came into Tokion, and was looking at a shirt and I said we also have it in other sizes and he made a very animated WHUZAA sound and gesture and then bought something and left
