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Alex Remington

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I think "death of culture" is about the fact that "art" is never just about the work – it's about the work and the audience it attracts. Fandom blends the two; the fragmentation of monoculture underscores the gap. If an artist creates something for a niche that is airgapped from other niches...

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I think that's basically fine, from the point of view of the *art*, but potentially not from the point of view of the balkanized audience. We like being able to enjoy things with other people! Losing that is deeply destabilizing! We're all trying to figure out how to live in the 1000 True Fans era.

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