Détournement is no longer a strategy: the spectacle is endlessly self-disrupting, endlessly self-referential, endlessly self-critical. By the time the merry-go-round gets back where it started, it has become a cliché.
Intellectuals and artists retreat into pastiche, exaggeration, parody, not out of an affinity for the form but to avoid the crippling fear that what they are doing is already, has always been, pastiche, exaggeration, self-parody.
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Détournement is no longer a strategy: the spectacle is endlessly self-disrupting, endlessly self-referential, endlessly self-critical. By the time the merry-go-round gets back where it started, it has become a cliché.
Intellectuals and artists retreat into pastiche, exaggeration, parody, not out of an affinity for the form but to avoid the crippling fear that what they are doing is already, has always been, pastiche, exaggeration, self-parody.
beautiful microaphorisms. as a zoomer i have struggles understanding millenial fascination w the spectacle but its all gold <3