TW1 - Aesthetics As Politics

This episode is available as a youtube video with reference images, visual gags, and other additional content at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpPZKdXGOUY 

 

The gang discusses how aesthetics took over political life thanks to the influence of Ed Bernays and mass media, and what that means for the information age. We use the works of Walter Benjamin and Guy Debord to help us answer the question: Can you still make real art?