Senseless Babble - The Drift

So far as I’m aware, nobody in art — and the same goes for the literary scene — is even trying to be avant-garde.

Senseless Babble - The Drift Issue 10 | July 11, 2023 Image by Ivy Sanders Schneider Issue 10 | July 11, 2023 Issue 10 | July 11, 2023 Senseless Babble ​ Dean Kissick S o far as I’m aware, nobody in art — and the same goes for the literary scene — is even trying to be avant-garde. Much of the art world is actively and outspokenly opposed to the idea of aesthetic progress or provocation, and has turned backwards, into an arrière-garde . Dead artists, forgotten artists, and traditional mediums and styles are favored exactly because they are implicit rejections of the present and the future. In t

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