Description: political economy and information policy analysis
Late capitalism’s production of cultural objects involves commodities making other commodities whether as art installation in an urban art gallery or as the remote desert site documented by photography, made now entrepreneurial for tourism as well as confounding the public policy for nuclear waste. Such land art as accumulative representation is of a long term Minsky cycle in extreme space and time fixing some variables close to zero value. Even appearing as a static store of value, capital circulates in de
Heizer and Turrell essentially grifted the art world into paying for them to be weird little desert loners making future ancient ruins.
The formation of investment capital as skyscraper development or the “turd in the plaza” of monumental sculpture in its setback public space is always a cultural product whether it refers to the contradiction of the experienced environments or the anomalous obstruction to the experience of the small urban space . Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc represents the acme of the urban conflict among site-specific artwork, public money for such artwork, and a capitalist legal system.