Gothic Capitalism

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As western capitalism outlives any sense of social development or progress culture takes on an increasingly gothic hue. The ruins of our industrial heyday are illuminated by digital billboards. The cyber-utopianism of the early Internet has waned exposing Silicon Valley's anti-democratic ideologies and economies. As a result far-right governments and fascist movements replace our meagre democracies. Looking around there are no saviours. Politics is moribund while artists once the dreamers of the modernist avant-garde have become institutionalized and weak. Our revolutionary dreams are in tatters. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Gothic Capitalism </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>argues that artists can salvage art's spiritual and social roots by reassociating our art with working-class communities class struggle and gothic capitalism's everyday contradictions.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>Turl's ideas are an incitement a reckoning - and perhaps even a way forward.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>- Holly Lewis author of </span><em style=color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>The Politics of Everybody</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>A vital critique of the extractive machinery of the contemporary art world... this is not just a diagnosis - it's a call to arms.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>- </span><span style=color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>Anupam Roy </span><span style=color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>artist</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>At once a protest and a clearing of the path forward... a tour de force of Marxist art history.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>- Jyotsna Kapur author of </span><em style=color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>The Politics of Time and Youth in Brand India</em></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>S</em><span style=color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>ummons avant-garde artists to break free from a market-driven art world whose institutions permit only capitalist dreams and nightmares -- and to produce art that is truly for the proletariat and its revolution.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>- Joe Shapiro author of </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The Illiberal Imagination</em></p><p></p>