Philosophy
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2 weeks agoHow to Deal with Online Virtue Signaling
Virtue signaling often leads to frustration; adopting a charitable critique can help navigate discussions on social media about structural injustice.
The work of Claire Fontaine is filled with rich and complex objects and images whose status and meaning is constantly in flux. There are jokes. There is a handwritten text in watercolour, copied out again and again, freeing the writer from the injustices of their ancestors (I AM FREE, it concludes). There is work riffing on Marcel Duchamp's moustachioed and goateed Mona Lisa, swapping his ribald but puzzling 1919 caption LHOOQ with LGBTQ+.