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Three Tendencies of Future Art - Journal #89 March 2018 - e-flux

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As spatial segregation becomes almost complete in the twenty-first-century nation, the wealthy wall themselves off in hyper-policed gated zones. The l…

The following predictions were from a 2027 report of the Future Arts Alliance, entitled “3 Mind-Melting Facts About the Future of Art.” They have proved a classic of art futurology in the intervening decades, despite all the dislocations caused by years of civil conflict and ecological displacement, largely because of their accurate assumptions about these larger motivating political and economic forces. The document is reproduced here unaltered, its scattered inaccuracies, exaggerations, and now-archaic terminology left unchanged. By the mid-twenty-first century, we predict that it will…

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