{"id":660,"date":"2012-02-02T09:59:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T09:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicedream.net\/?p=660"},"modified":"2024-10-04T06:13:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T06:13:07","slug":"the-age-of-the-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/the-age-of-the-critic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Age of the Critic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/2011\/jan\/30\/is-the-age-of-the-critic-over\">The Guardian<\/a> reflects on how social media fits into the perennial debate on cultural elitism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We now live under the hybrid tyranny of middlebrow. No serious person believes the Oscars are a list of the best films, or the Grammys the best music. Charitably one could say they represent a kind of averaging out, an index of the taste of a group of informed people. At worst, critics acting en masse, with one eye on what&#8217;s popular and one eye on what&#8217;s good, end up praising work that doesn&#8217;t upset them. That&#8217;s why there&#8217;s so much stuff that looks like art, smells like art, but when you bite into it, it just tastes of cardboard. This is why we have the internet. Social networks don&#8217;t strive for consensus. Instead they thrive on argument.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Guardian reflects on how social media fits into the perennial debate on cultural elitism: We now live under the hybrid tyranny of middlebrow. No serious person believes the Oscars are a list of the best films, or the Grammys the best music. Charitably one could say they represent a kind of averaging out, an&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/the-age-of-the-critic\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}