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After Analysis: Authenticity, Autofiction, and the End of Art (opens the original)
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This post is a lightly edited version of a talk I originally delivered at the University of Chicago, in 2016, to complete the requirements for my dissertation about David Foster Wallace, later adapted into an essay for the collection David Foster Wallace in Context (Cambridge, 2022). The dissertation itself was less about sincerity than it was about Wallace’s relationship to philosophy—and especially to Wittgensteinian philosophy—but it was inspired by my sense th
The Ivy League’s Surrender to AI Is Insane (opens the original)
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This article originally appeared in the Chronicle Review.The university administrators have gotten tired of paying lip service to Luddites. AI is not going anywhere, they tell us, and it’s time to start making the most of it. In a recent message to the faculty and students, David Deming, dean of Harvard College, claimed that policing AI use is harming faculty-student “trust.” He urged the “acceptance, or even encouragement” of AI for writing-intensive tasks. Similarly, in
Where the Wilde Things Are (opens the original)
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This is the third installment of “Just Like Us,” a monthly Substack-only column on celebrity and online culture, by Grazie Sophia Christie. Read the second, on Taylor Swift’s “royal wedding,” here.Toward the end of Woody Allen’s 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the stormy painter Maria Elena is leaving. But where will she go? Allen doesn’t te
Taste Isn’t a Bad Word (opens the original)
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Yesterday we published the first in a series of responses from art critics, historians and theorists to Sean Tatol’s issue 37 essay “After the Post-Avant-Garde.” What, asked in his reflection, does Tatol mean by notoriously flighty concepts like “quality” and “taste”? What happens when you keep in mind their historical contingency? Read on for Tatol
What Is Quality? (opens the original)
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Sean Tatol of ’s essay for our latest issue, “After the Post-Avant-Garde,” asks: What happened to coolness in art? His answer, in tracing a trajectory from the avant-garde to the late avant-garde to the post-avant-garde through artists like Andrea Fraser, Lutz Bacher and Bill Hayden, offers an ambitious diagnosis of the art world today, and why it might be time for artists to abandon the notion of the avant-garde. The essay has sparked a range of reactions in the art world: enthusiasm, skepticis
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