The avant-garde idea that the point of art is to shock (bourgeois) sensibilities reached its logical conclusion over a century ago with Duchamp's urinal. Already 50 years ago we were clearly post-avant-garde. Why do we need these arguments still? 3ammagazine.com/3am/against-sh
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Neat. I went through a similar disenchantment with viral potency (kinda = online shock) a few years ago. Not just a generational thing or a cultural period though. I think it’s a natural evolution in any creative trajectory to what Edward Said called a late style.

