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I’ve been thinking a lot about consumption lately. Here, in the United States, we consume far too much processed food. We consume far too much persuasive news. We consume far too much bullshit and other shit. We don’t consume enough impressive, investigative, and instigative culture.
Joshua Abelow has built a cultish reputation as a top-dawg fine purveyor of some of the most esoteric, engrossing visual artists of the past hundred-plus years. He doesn’t know how to code; he doesn’t know how to hack; he doesn’t know how to use Adobe Creative Suite; he’s never mined the deep, dark web; he is not a Net or a Post-Net artist. Yet, he created one of the most influential art blogs ever, his work has gone viral many times over, and he understands the dissemination (and consumption) of information better than (perhaps almost) any other artist I know.
In my adult lifetime, when people think or talk about living with and wi…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about consumption lately. Here, in the United States, we consume far too much processed food. We consume far too much persuasive news. We consume far too much bullshit and other shit. We don’t consume enough impressive, investigative, and instigative culture.
Joshua Abelow has built a cultish reputation as a top-dawg fine purveyor of some of the most esoteric, engrossing visual artists of the past hundred-plus years. He doesn’t know how to code; he doesn’t know how to hack; he doesn’t know how to use Adobe Creative Suite; he’s never mined the deep, dark web; he is not a Net or a Post-Net artist. Yet, he created one of the most influential art blogs ever, his work has gone viral many times over, and he understands the dissemination (and consumption) of information better than (perhaps almost) any other artist I know.
In my adult lifetime, when people think or talk about living with and wi…
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