Even a show-off like me finds this new, super-rich art-buying crowd vulgar and depressingly shallow Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory...
Forget about listening to ourselves. In the age of data, algorithms have the answer. For thousands of years humans believed that authority came from the gods. Then, during the modern era, humanism gradually shifted authority from deities to people. Jean-Jacques Rousseau summed up this revolution in...
Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science. Imagine, if you can, a period long before today’s internet-based connectivity. Imagine that, in that distant time, the populations of every country were offered a new plan. The plan...
