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Here’s a rolling list of posts, blogs, and links that I’ve been enjoying. Links will roll off (from the bottom)…at some point, and be archived…in some manner. Details are still being developed, because this is a new thing.
- Culture, Digested: Neil Gaiman is an Industry Problem:
Even taking into consideration their years of exploitation and abuse, Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer remain models of artistic success in the 21st century. Gaiman created an extremely sellable brand — affable, “oh goodness,” harmless Britishness wrapped up in a “I have read a lot of books” kind of storytelling — and the publishing industry used that not only to sell a lot of his books but that of his friends as well. Amanda Palmer has crowdsourced her way into a perfect little Patreon pyramid scheme, where all money flows to her and she gives back vibes and requests for domestic labor. This is the ideal artistic arrangement these days, where stars receive 95% of Patreon/Substack/other crowdsourced forms of income and everyone else competes for scraps. Both are reliant on a dedicated, servile audience, willing to turn over their time and bodies and cash to get a piece of that bohemian existence that only millionaires can manage these days. It’s the bohemianism not of Weimar, which Palmer constantly references, but the bohemianism of contemporary Burning Man, full of tech billionaires wearing the worst outfits you’ve ever seen in your life.
- Blogroll.club: A throwback to the “old school” days of blogging!
- Postroll | Notes by JCProbably: The inspiration for this page.
Credit: Inspired by and somewhat shamelessly yoinked from JCProbably’s Postroll page. Last updated on .