NYC & ASAP
I went to New York in October for a seminar in ASAP, the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. I did write about improv,...
A plug for a book out next month, from Goldsmiths University Press: Finance Aesthetics, A Critical Glossary. I have an entry for the word MEN, in which I discuss this screen shot from this man's appearance in a TIME magazine video when he was named Person of the Year. He called the Space X campus a manly monastery while sitting in front of the suggestive rockets pictured here.
My entry discusses the speculative financial structures that his version of masculinity allows him to build on top of Tesla derivatives.
Just to be clear: I chose this topic for my entry on MEN before he had bought the bird site, and way before the events, and the hot takes, of the past few weeks.