Join 📚 J'S Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what J's read, .
It shows as well in their general attitude toward art, which as critic Philip Maciak [pointed out](https://newrepublic.com/article/172449/mrs-davis-peacock-review-weirder-than-artificial-intelligence), treats it as “a problem to be solved … an uncomfortably irreducible remainder to optimizing the world.” AI proponents would like to reveal artistic creation to be a gimmick, and such notions as “genius” and “inspiration” — or the possibility of aesthetic judgment in general — as tricks, as “glib illusions.”
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
Beneath the cobblestones, the beach!’)
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
Conversation’s got to have some root in the past, or else you’ve got to explain every remark you make, an’ it wears a person out.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
...catch up on these, and many more highlights