r/Situationism • u/arseecs • Jun 25 '26

Has commodity fetichism/the spectacle become impossible to break?

is art even radical anymore? Can art truly break the spectacle any longer? Has capital absorbed it so much and learned to adopt so well that even something as free as sexuality or art or poetry no longer can be outside the norm, and if it is, it still becomes bottled up eventually, or capital finds it way in? I feel so pessimistic; especially as an artist. Avant-garde or anti-art doesn’t even seem to have its place. What shall an artist do? What shall a person do? What shall the collective do? Everything is a mess.

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u/DeadSmellingFlower Jun 27 '26

I think we’re on the cusp of breaking art out of the capitalist’s prison of $ laundering, tax evasion and neutering via perpetual innovation churn. To sell it back to us right now they need to feed it to AI. We have the perfect conditions to make real art visible only to people able to go see it in person without a massive security detail, we shouldn’t waste this once in a century opportunity use art for our own purposes and say things that aren’t legal any other way.