Another irony that gets forgotten is that art emerges through inequality. I read The Dawn of Everything recently and one uncomfortable truth that emerged was that great art traditions, like the Haida from the west coast of North America, can emerge from slave cultures.
Artists need to be freed from life-sustaining labour to be able to dev…
Another irony that gets forgotten is that art emerges through inequality. I read The Dawn of Everything recently and one uncomfortable truth that emerged was that great art traditions, like the Haida from the west coast of North America, can emerge from slave cultures.
Artists need to be freed from life-sustaining labour to be able to develop their skill and produce their works. This necessarily means that labour must be reproduced by others in the culture. All the gilded ages have produced a lot of gild on the backs of working people by the rich who have the surplus to sustain the creative class.
In essence we always have had a parasite class that eats our dreams and shits out beauty.
Full disclosure, I am one of the creative class that is sustained by this process.
Some fear that AI will cut out the creative class, to just smooth out the transaction. I don’t think it will, although it will make it harder for marginal creatives to live and favour the mediocrity of the trust fund kids.
Another irony that gets forgotten is that art emerges through inequality. I read The Dawn of Everything recently and one uncomfortable truth that emerged was that great art traditions, like the Haida from the west coast of North America, can emerge from slave cultures.
Artists need to be freed from life-sustaining labour to be able to develop their skill and produce their works. This necessarily means that labour must be reproduced by others in the culture. All the gilded ages have produced a lot of gild on the backs of working people by the rich who have the surplus to sustain the creative class.
In essence we always have had a parasite class that eats our dreams and shits out beauty.
Full disclosure, I am one of the creative class that is sustained by this process.
Some fear that AI will cut out the creative class, to just smooth out the transaction. I don’t think it will, although it will make it harder for marginal creatives to live and favour the mediocrity of the trust fund kids.