Artistic invention requires deliberate non-market effort

Evidence

The first step in reversing cultural stagnation is to accept that artistic invention is a social good. And like so many other social goods, we shouldn’t expect the market to optimize for its production. We have to make an effort. Creators need to try to make radical new forms of culture. Even their failures and half steps will be more interesting than overly market-tested, premium-mediocre pop. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 850

Categorization

• SEED: A natural essay contrast: Marx’s opt-out-artistry prescription vs. the extinction of ‘failure’ under algorithmic distribution — what would a deliberate half-step culture even look like structurally?
• XREF: connects to: Absorbed, non-distracted time is required for genuine innovation and creative work — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1636