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Why Good Politics Makes for Bad Art
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A Supreme Fiction
On Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus, briefly
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Interim: Two Poems
Latch | The Rocks
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The Great Debasement
How art-world institutions have corrupted the terms of the art encounter, for Tablet
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Art for Art’s Sake in the New Century
A French history of the concept, Nietzsche’s stance, and artists of the Paleolithic
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The Empathy Racket
The insistence on heightened empathy as a proper response to art is made only by those with a stunted understanding of what art is.
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Notes of an Aesthete
Notes of an Aesthete
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Notes of an Aesthete

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