In this special episode of SPS, we discuss Joe Biden's inauguration and the relationship between Art and the capitalist state. Professional creative artists are facing unemployment at rates well above the national average. We take up the proposals for WPA-style intervention, a Ministry of Culture, and a White House Office for Culture. In the second half, we consider the artist Brad Troemel and his attempt to reinterpret “Liberal Cringe” into meme art.

Images and videos for this episode can be found at: https://caesuramag.org/montezsps01292021

SPS is a production of the Platypus Affiliated Society, more at: https://platypus1917.org/

 
Links for this episode:
 
Alison Hewitt Ward, 2010, RIP Art Trump
https://caesuramag.org/posts/rip-trump-art
 
Letter of resignation from the President's Committee on the Arts & the Humanities (2017)
https://twitter.com/kalpenn/status/898547257062174724/photo/1
 
Chris Cutrone, 2010, What was postmodernism? -- Habermas’s critique 
An incomplete project? Art and politics after postmodernism 
http://chriscutrone.platypus1917.org/?p=955
 
Platypus Art & Politics syllabus
https://platypus1917.org/2020/06/17/art-and-politics/
 
Brad Troemel, Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/bst
 
Barbra Kruger’s Selfridges campaign in London with Behance,
https://www.behance.net/gallery/58329969/Selfridges-Co-Sale-campaign
 
Ryan Long, 2020, When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev373c7wSRg
 
Jason Farago, "The Arts Are in Crisis. Here’s How Biden Can Help," New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/arts/design/arts-stimulus-biden.html
 
Susan Buck-Morss, response to Visual culture questionnaire (1996)
https://platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/buckmorss_visualcultquest.pdf

Efraim Carlebach, “Forgetting Mark Fisher” Platypus Review 115 (April 2019)
https://platypus1917.org/2019/04/01/forgetting-mark-fisher/
 
Original tracks by Tamas Vilaghy
Hosted by Sophia and Pamela

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Ep. 32:  On Brad Troemel, and Art & the Capitalist State

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Ep. 32: On Brad Troemel, and Art & the Capitalist State

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