EP 35: NET POVERA (Joshua Citarella x New Models)
New Models
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The Explosion in the Memeosphere
The explosion in the memeosphere was, I think, uncontestably the most significant visual culture happening in the last half decade. In the significance of global political consensus, all of these things played out through these aesthetic materials can't be underplayed. And it just seemed like there's a meme I'm going to paraphrase: Why is it that teenagers on the internet are producing aesthetic materials that are more discursively significant than the stuff happening in the mainstream art world? Right, like that's really pressing on the sore spot.
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