“The difference between the fake Rothko and the cryptopunk is that the latter is honest about its dishonesty and absurdity. It just builds on the craze and momentum of cryptocurrencies and found a niche in this market: If people are already investing in “just a piece of blockchain” — why not mint unique pieces of “just a piece of blockchain”? It just happened to find a way to “pass” as a currency, and thus as a way to “pass” as an art investment.
It’s actually a lot like what Warhol himself did with the art world. He was entirely honest about the meaninglessness of what he was doing, thereby ironically enchanting his work and persona with an especially mystical lure. He appeared to be able to break the rules of social reality, which made him and his work sacred, larger than life. There’s a whole literature on these things in the sociology of religion. Warhol (and those like him in those select moments of history) seem to “walk on (sociological) water”. From thereon, everything they touch becomes gold.”
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| medium.com |
The social construction of reality is becoming self-conscious — making us ready to reshape the world as we know it
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