>"In this month’s installment of “The Downward Spiral,” Dean Kissick writes a roundup of New York’s fall exhibitions. They are many, so many, and pleasant, so pleasant, as palliatives for a doomed dying world."

>"Our editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg and senior editor Taylore Scarabelli scroll through the looks from the Gilded Glamour-themed 2022 Met Gala."

"The artists downtown are getting high, they’re complaining about publishing houses, and graphic designers, while the bridge and tunnel crowd are all fucking one _...Read More_

It’s fall so Dean goes on a gallery tour of Manhattan. “How does the body, the figurative painted market body of art from the late 2010s, look now, seven months into the episode? It’s sick, infected, part animal, disassembling. Some Zombie _...Read More_

I would more likely consider this in the camp of “theories of history” or “theories of teleology” (say Hegel or Marx) or “theories of development” as opposed to “theories of time” proper (say McTaggart’s A-Series or B-Series).