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Meanwhile, films such as the aforementioned Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Stalker – plundered by Hollywood since as far back as Alien and Blade Runner – were produced in the ostensibly moribund conditions of the Brezhnevite Soviet state, meaning that the USSR acted as a cultural entrepreneur for Hollywood. Since it is now clear that a certain amount of stability is necessary for cultural vibrancy, the question to be asked is: how can this stability be provided, and by what agencies?
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
In other words, art is indeed, as Maciak put it, an “irreducible remainder” that impedes optimization. But impeding optimization is what’s necessary to leave open the space for new possibilities. Optimization is inevitably a formatting of the future to suit the established frameworks of the past.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
There is a standing contradiction between the power and status that stems from self-indulgence and the power and status that stems from self-discipline. Ozempic and the other similar drugs sit at the nexus of this contradiction.
The Cure for Consumerism
Rob Horning
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