culture.
on the contemporary life.
The Eye Is the Judge: On Aesthetics and Capital
Under capitalism, ethics has been displaced by aesthetics. What looks good has overtaken what is good.
Fashion, Capital, and the Grammar of Dress
What we wear is never merely what we wear. Dress is a language, and like all languages, it is also a power structure.
The Spectacle Has No Outside
Debord insisted that the spectacle was not a collection of images but a social relation mediated by images.
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Taste as Violence
To have taste is to judge. To judge is to exclude.
On Wearing Black
A short essay on the politics, aesthetics, and quiet nihilism of refusing colour.