Findings
Research findings from the Memetics lab—empirical analysis of art, labor, and institutional power.
Paper
Which Art Endures? Funding Networks, Institutional Power, and the Political Economy of American Arts Philanthropy
Arts philanthropy as a legitimation economy. 384,543 grants, $15B in funding, 2019–2024. Preferential attachment, edge persistence, and modularity as structural parameters of cultural allocation.
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.