Post-2008 culture deepened capitalist logic rather than reinventing society

Evidence

But how would one know the difference between art and kitsch in a poptimist world? For all the possibilities around reimagining society in the wake of the Great Recession, the culture went deeper into capitalist logic: the collective celebration of entertainers’ personal enrichment and the entrepreneurial chutzpah of reality TV stars. There was certainly no artistic explosion or moral revolution. In all the era’s cultural pursuits, commerce was the answer. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 256

Categorization

• QUESTION: The premise ‘no artistic explosion in the wake of the Recession’ is contestable — was Ye’s maximalist period, the streaming TV renaissance, etc. genuinely not an artistic opening? Worth interrogating against the counter-case.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism survived 2008 by becoming an unrecognized everyday worldview — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 76