Culture requires regular invention of fresh formats to stay healthy
Evidence
Yet this reductionist thinking misses the most important dynamic of culture: Its health requires the regular emergence of fresh formats and aesthetics. Radical art forms expand the ways we can see the world, broaden our values, and prepare us for the future. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 33
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Sets up Marx’s criterion for what separates healthy culture from the blank space: continual emergence of new aesthetics.
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- Marx treats culture as a productive force materialized in labor and language (similarity 0.81)
- Marx denies that digital forms fill the cultural blank space (similarity 0.80)
- Cultural innovation requires mastering the canon it rebels against (similarity 0.80)
- Artistic invention requires deliberate non-market effort (similarity 0.79)
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- Artistic invention is a social good the market will not optimize for. (similarity 0.78)
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- Calls for new culture come from socially displaced old strata, not new ones (similarity 0.78)