Memetics
Research on art, labor, and institutional power in the age of AI.
Research
Paper
The Legitimation Economy: How Arts Philanthropy Allocates When Production Is Not the Bottleneck
There have always been more artists than institutions willing to support them. Three structural parameters—proximity, relationship capital, institutional endorsement—govern which institutions survive. The artists are downstream. 384,543 grants, $15B, 2019–2024.
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Preliminary Findings
Do Rationalists Dream of Electric Art? Relocated Scarcity and Discourse Legitimation
A sociohistorical paper about cheapening intelligence, selective art legibility, and rival regimes of judgment across alignment-adjacent and arts-critical discourse.