Our voices, ideas, and instincts are increasingly “contaminated” by the social dictates of prestige systems, high profile individuals, aesthetics, and more. With the help of algorithms and media, we are imbuing an atmosphere of cult-like movements that are truly ailing us.

Did the art world help to normalise insider knowledge, speculative culture, and legitimising of crisis profits? The answers lie in the very systems supporting the creation of art today.

The “Epstein class”, with its ceaseless cascade of horrors, violence, and extremist causes, are a mere fraction of today’s globally networked elites. The latest files provide an unrelenting look into behind-the-scenes machinations that protect and enable this socioeconomic stratum.

If you are working in the arts today, you are part of an unprecedented crisis due in part to a globally weakening labour market. A slew of multinational companies, including tech conglomerates IBM, Meta, and Amazon, have announced massive job cuts.