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Why does slowness matter in a hyper-accelerated world?
Artists embrace slow practices to resist speed, efficiency, and productivity.
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Abysmal Plan: Waiting Until We Die and Radically Accelerated Repetitionism
Accelerationism is framed less as a viable political praxis than as a provocation and symptom: an aesthetic-ideological register where meaning collapses into force, the capitalist sublime, and post-cinematic affect that manipulates bodies while reproducing capital’s own self-myth of speed, flux, and inevitability. Against this fantasy of linear acceleration, the text proposes a productivist “Repetitionism” that foregrounds circular, grinding production and mortality-bound labor-time—an abysmal idiocy of repetition that exposes capitalism’s dependence on brute power, generic modularity, and the endless reproduction of images as ideology.
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The Third Seal-They Are Already Old, They Don’t Need To Exist Anymore
Apocalyptic eschatology is mobilized as a contemporary diagnostic: immersive, looping text-projections stage class struggle, labor, revolt, and mortality as cyclical, non-linear historical forces rather than a narrative with origin or closure. By fusing ornamental beauty with bilingual, abrasive language, the work critiques cultural and market regimes of value while probing how meaning is produced across image/text and pictographic/phonetic systems, implicating identity and spectatorship in the politics of interpretation.
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Readymade Flea Market
A simulated “ancestor” reality—framed through Bostrom-style world-simulation theory and rendered as a collapsing 3D graphic space—becomes an allegory for post-liberal political nihilism and the systemic overheating of late-capitalist economies. Anthropomorphic panic-buyers, empty shelves mediated by televisions, and Kruger’s consumerist dictum converge with Korean silk-painting lineage to critique information-age spectacle, neoliberal subject formation, and an eternalized state of emergency where violence and commodity-fetishism appear as normalized social logics.
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Styles and Customs in the 2020s
Speculative vignettes stage the 2020s as an accelerationist collapse of modern distinctions—public/private, art/life, human/tech—where platform capitalism, data extraction, and privatization reorganize subjectivity into quantified affect, curated identity, and engineered desire amid ecological crisis. Post-ironic lifestyle aesthetics, Afrofuturist and queer biohacker counter-myths, and the end of authorship/appropriation converge into a critique of neoliberal governance and microfascist “props,” imagining culture as distributed operations and curation-as-power while exposing utopian freedom as a managed, content-producing enclosure.
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