#65 - Art, Money, Philosophy, and Obscurity
Description
The art world, fancy shopping districts, rich Switzerland, Art Basel, art as collector's items, commerical galleries, pleasantries, faux abstraction, contentless art, poser artists, choosing your legacy, commercial and existential success, going against the grain, philosophy and big books, superficiality, Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Žižek, shallowness and hyper-intellectualism, David Foster Wallace, art schools, obscurity for the sake of obscurity, randomness and surrealism, sense-making, and mindless bollocks.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Adam Nicholson is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom).
Recorded on August 2, 2022.
Maja Malmcrona
http://majamalmcrona.com
http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Adam Nicholson
https://twitter.com/G_JuliusGeezer
https://publickopinions.wordpress.com/
References
Slavoj Žižek debates Jordan Peterson
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Jorinde Voigt
United States
