Transgressive art is important to make for posterity because fascists love to try to tell you people didn't used to be weird
Sorry to LA-post on main, but "She has no base" is a very funny thing to say about a sitting City Council member in defense of a guy who was on a tv show a couple decades ago and has never been elected to any office at any level.
One good thing I got from the arts and humanities is a sense that things in your inner life can be real even if they are not directly reflected in external reality
between the AI graduation speeches & the Knicks game last night, booing is having a bit of a moment rn.
interesting to think about how booing is how publics are manifesting themselves contra technologies & politics bent on destroying society/the public/etc
People will say “Oh so Google gets mad about copyright when people do it but not when they do” but these two images are consistent: your creative labor is a profitable plaything for people more powerful that you
I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand
they really said you’ll get paid in exposure to the city of los angeles