What’s the second credit crunch? It’s the content crunch. It’s when the lights go on at the end of the party, and you notice the smoke machine and mirrored walls, that the beautiful people you’ve been dancing with have grey skin and cocaine confidence and that the great DJ was just someone’s iPod on shuffle. It’s when it becomes clear that meaning in your work only resides there on credit, and that all the chatter around your career has been about everything but the art itself.
— You are reading Dan Fox’s Frieze missive from 2008, Debit or Credit, which resurfaced on the Twitterzverse today. Right now. Then, you’re settling in to watch The Wire boxed set straight through—because that’s what you (and me, and all of us) should’ve been doing in the first place.
