Caramblogage

This IGAF (Is Goodness a Fashion) series explores, from a non-expert point of view the social, economic and narrative ramifications I see developing from the COVID-19 crisis, worries, but also hopes for a future that the current shock to the system may result in. Many of the conversations I've been having lately have revolved around the emergency measures governments, states and unions of states have been implementing surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak. The tenor of these conversations is generally: so that healthcare measure was possible all the time? So the money for funding UBI is theoretically available? So you can call out the corruption of profiteering off such a situation? For years, the question when it comes to many hollowed-out state-run social welfare or even social support programmes, the question of "how do we pay for this??" has been raised. There are some very simple answers to that question, but it seems they required a radical suspension of "...

There are two definitions implied here: the industry of creatives, which occasionally results in things that may be termed art (even if it is cleaning the floor), the act of producing something creative. A second reading might be a capitalist mode of production, in which creative people produce exponential amounts of content that is, or is not, creative, to retain their relevance and the attention of audiences.  The question attached to that is: once "creatives"understand their work mainly as a form of labour, through which they earn money, and themselves as a factory, are they still producing "art", or is it design? This leads us to the difference between art and design, but that's a discussion for another day.