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readthenotes1today at 4:54 AM2 repliesview on HN

"our particular slice of dystopian late capitalism."

Did not call it the aesthetic of our time since the term was first used for post world war I economies.

We must be in late-to-its-own-funeral capitalism.


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frollogastontoday at 4:57 PM

A ton of liminal space photos are of Soviet era stuff, especially brutalist architecture.

_0ffhtoday at 9:01 AM

I blame it on the art world being full of pseudo-intellectual little shits, so of course they get off on the Marxian esthetic of throwing around signalling phrases like "late capitalism". They live and die by pretense, there just isn't anything more than that to these "people". All facade, nothing inside. The average LLM has more soul than these types, I fear.