48. Art itself is Spiritual. It transcends materiality. Artists live outside society, like monks. They're anti-power. They stand for humanity, for love, for expression. They live in connection with the unconscious. Art is eternal, primordial, not of this world.
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49. At least that was the vibe in the early 20th century. Contemporary Artists are fiercely political and humanist, and they engage in complex and subtle conceptual, ethico-aesthetic, and political games.
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50. McLuhan described artists as the sensory apparatus of society. They're sensitive, and they're the first to detect subtle shifts. They sense movements pre-verbally, and articulate new ideas, feelings, vibes, aesthetics close to the source. Close to the undifferentiated plenum.
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51. Within the Art World, amongst Artists, the Art Economy is considered anathema. Artists are typically anti-capitalist, anti-inequality, against oppression. Yet Art would not exist if it were not created by the State and by the Collector – rich capitalists.
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52. So the Contemporary Art World is this rich tapestry of contradiction, each pinned to its extreme. The most inequitable, elitist, imperial, yet spiritual, free, and human. The most valued, yet the least valuable.
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Great thread. Have you checked out any evolutionary/integral consciousness works? Check Integral Art and Literary Theory by Ken Wilber? There’s a PDF outline. It gives a z-axis map of evolutionary change rather than a horizontal/dualistic approach.
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you know, you could stealth pivot THIS thread into an urbit infomercial 🤔
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actually, come to think of it, my read of urbit so far HAS been as a sort of piece of software performance art, with some deliberate provocations thrown in like the infamous true =0/false =1 convention
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