The post-cultural state - Engelsberg ideas
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A cultural malaise has quietly eroded the West’s confidence in its creativity, reshaping how art is funded, judged, and understood.
A cultural malaise has quietly eroded the West’s confidence in its creativity, reshaping how art is funded, judged, and understood. The bureaucracies that govern cultural life today are fundamentally uninterested in cultivating any proper sense of what art is, what it is ‘for’, and how new creations converse with the canon. We are governed by a post-cultural state, a regime in which art is increasingly mediated through managerialism. The post-cultural state prides itself on ‘access’ and ‘impact’, while culture itself withers on the vine. When the state and its great museums cease to act as…
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