If a machine creates a video or a song that brings a person to tears, does it matter that the machine felt nothing?
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Last week’s record-breaking marathon speech by United States Sen. Cory Booker is important not just for what was said, but also for the way it was delivered.
Storyselling, unlike narration, attempts to eradicate uncertainty. It cannot perform the important task of imagining the future.
In his essays, Walter Benjamin sought to understand the nature of modernity. He drew on Marxism but was not contained by it, ranging across literature, art, popular culture, even Jewish mysticism.
When we see the high prices some are paying for NFT art, we must assume more performances, and potentially, acts of protest, could circulate as NFTs.
Beautiful art can provide hope and healing.
The search for old or new African sounds is based around a nostalgia culture that is endemic to Anglo-American popular music.
The Andy Warhol exhibition embodies so many of the contradictions, complications and conflicts in both art and society in contemporary South Africa.
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