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Under contemporary regimes of domination, what circulates under the name art operates within a field in which negativity is seemingly anticipated, captured, and neutralised almost at the instant of its appearance. Refusal, opacity, formal autonomy, even gestures of self-sublation lose operational force as the configuration…
If modern art sought transcendence, fast food achieves it. Its architectures of inoffensive modularity pursue not silence but flow: rooms composed for rhythm and repetition, where colour, light, and surface co-operate in a choreography of satisfaction. The dining room is a theatre of appetite—plastic seats..
Across the globe, democratic institutions decay as techno-authoritarian and neo-fascist formations consolidate. The rise of neo-Trumpism and the settler-colonial genocide in Palestine exemplify this condition: data colonialism, militarised persecution, and automated domination fused into a single infrastructure of power…
