that the arch also calls for realigning the lincoln memorial away from the reflecting pool, and with the arlington memorial bridge is one particularly insane detail about this plan that I don't see many folks talking about

the search for disciplinary coherence / failed institutional reproduction certainly *did not* feel like they were in the rearview mirror at my department, and I just finished their grad program this past summer lol. still, I resonate a lot with what you've said here; thanks for the thread

almost a century later, it's still easier to just call him a fascist than a stuck-up liberal Deweyite pragmatist but, whatever

I would definitely say Benton *is* a key figure in the history of American modern art, but I also think revisionist historians (i.e. Henry Adams) went too far in their attempts at painting him in a positive light. the American section at the Nelson-Atkins is just fucking ridiculous to look at lol

they all tend to downplay the fact that he spent most of his artistic career in new york city: his flirtations w/ marxism there after WW1 and the many spats he later had with communist artists in the 1920s/30s. his commitment to a 'national art' despite never actually becoming a new deal artist, etc

sorry I meant to reply to this: and yeah it's definitely weird. he died in relative obscurity in 1975 (thirty-ish years apart from Grant Wood and John Stuart Curry) but by the mid-late 1980s there was a concerted effort made by certain scholars to re-frame his legacy a pioneer of american modern art

mega hobby already teased more kondo plamo when they showed off the geara doga in october; let's just hope they aren't bluffing lol

too late to be of any immediate use now, I suppose; still, it's pretty neat

that many sectors of the 'creative' industry is unionized (or trying to unionize) is a fact I already took as a given, which seems lost on the people in the thread I was originally quoting

I've been following cartoonist coop for a while; calm down. just because I'm complaining about a lack of organizers doesn't mean I think they don't exist, nor does it mean it's directed at you personally

if there were no real difference then you'd think 'creatives' would be petitioning platforms to reclassify themselves as employees (so they could bargain collectively), just like Uber drivers have been doing. but no, they seem more interested in securing royalties through arbitrary IP enforcement

this is what's led to the deskilling and proletarianization of specialist (but not exclusively latent, petit-bourgeois) fields since the 19th century. the big 'innovation' 21st century tech platforms brought was new ways of obscuring that process, all under the guise of enabling worker semi-autonomy