>"A cultural trend that fetishises lack and frugality has emerged under lockdown, invoking Blitz spirit in a celebration of the self-possessed, neoliberal individual.

The first image that I woke up to one morning on Instagram depicted a solo tin of brined anchovies, half-open, the metal lid curled like a knife against butter.

THE RISE OF QUARANTINE AUSTERITY AESTHETICS. "A cultural trend that fetishises lack and frugality has emerged under lockdown, invoking Blitz spirit in a celebration of the self-possessed, neoliberal individual. Words by Bryony White and Léonie Shinn-Morris"