After Authenticity
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Under authenticity, the value of a thing decreases as more and more people like it. This is clearly no longer the case.
After Authenticity Subpixel Space entries about sequence: Post-Authenticity After Authenticity Toby Shorin April 06, 2018 Entry 015 Concepts cultural theory aesthetics post-authenticity Has it occurred to you that nobody talks about sellouts anymore? Recently on my commute I passed someone wearing an Obey shirt. I was reminded of friends and internet commenters on forums I once frequented. They used to gripe about Shepard Fairey leveraging his success as a street artist to create the Obey skate clothing line. Their complaints always came down to “authenticity,” something Fairey ostensibly surr
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