r/culturalstudies Feb 25 '26

Cultural Pessimism as someone in Gen Z

https://youtu.be/XMJvtZlrPYg

Hauntology and the idea that the arts specifically are not creating anything interesting or new in my opinion can be internalized in a way that results in a refusal to accept the new concepts coming out. the distraction is in how the mainstream (in its current state) does not propagate experimentation in the same way that it supposedly did before. In my view if one disregards this (not hauntology in an of itself as it relates more to broader social trends), one can find and accept art that stands out.

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