Memetics

Research on art, labor, and institutional power in the age of AI—what survives, who decides, and what it means for alignment.

Research
Ongoing
Which Art Endures?
Arts philanthropy as the first measurable legitimation economy. How funding networks, institutional power, and donor relationships determine which artistic expressions survive.
384,543 grants · $15B in funding · 2019–2024
Ongoing
Do Rationalists Dream of Electric Art?
From scarcity of mention to discourse legitimation: how alignment-adjacent communities make art legible as valuable, and why that matters for cultural futures under AI.
6,279 verified-window posts · 50,378-post retrieval substrate · 15,448 historical arts docs