Cultural savants Shumon Basar (The Extreme Self & The Age of Earthquakes) and Dean Kissick (NY editor of Spike Art Magazine) join the show during Berlin Art Week for a sprawling, late-night convo on communication and creative production in year 2022. 

Along the way, we note the accelerating pace of decades, revisit Marshall McLuhan’s 1967 mass-media glow-up, log a veritable dictionary of neologisms, consider whether the art market as we know is a historically bound concept, and ask if we’ve possibly reached the end of clear-cut, market-ready “generations.” Also: mid-ification, zentrism, eNFT portals, and adult drainers. [recorded 29 Apr 2022]

For more:
https://twitter.com/shumonbasar
https://twitter.com/deankissick

Basar, Obrist, Coupland’s The Extreme Self (Penguin, 2021) https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/book/9783960989738

Dean’s column for Spike Art https://spikeartmagazine.com/?q=search&input=dean+kissick&field_online_bool=All

Dean’s 2021 essay for New Models & The Stolbun Institute, “Hello Darkness” https://newmodels.io/editorial/issue-3/hello-darkness-dean-kissick

New Models Podcast

After Dark w/ Shumon Basar & Dean Kissick (NM43)

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