Alan Wake wears the veil of pulp horror with all the silliness it entails, hiding a valuable message about art under its surface.
Twilight of the Spielberg Image
Steven Spielberg's career wrestles with the power and meaning of image-making, and his sci-fi "Disclosure Day" makes this its very subject.
Death of the Author: An Alan Wake Series Retrospective
In the wake: on Blackness and being
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe i…
The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet - Multi-hyphenate
Why every new "Art Community" fails. Equal parts eulogy, condemnation, and mourning.
The AI Aesthetic
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Steven Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ Turns Autofiction Into Thrilling Sci-Fi
The Hollywood maestro’s latest is filled with excitement and sentimentality.
The Pines asks what would Alan Wake look like if it was about therapy, and I kind of want to know the answer
The open world psychological horror RPG looks familiar, but has enough going on to help it stand out.
Gazing through a lens, I invent as much as I reveal | Psyche Turning Points
For years I watched people through cameras and screens, filling in the blanks and calling it truth
How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time
This crowd-curated digital movement is one of the most pertinent and explicit reactions to our particular slice of dystopian late capitalism.
Trevor Paglen and Holly Herndon on Making Art with AI and What the Discourse Is Missing
The artists talk process, slop, and why optimism and pessimism don’t quite cover it.
The dark side of the Moomins
Tove Jansson’s beloved stories, which turn 80 this year, are not cute: they are angry tales of apocalypse and breakdown.
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
How Jordan Peterson's Suits Taught Me Fashion
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What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory
Why do we need art? What Art Does is an invitation to e…
