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Power and Culture on the Internet, and Saving College Radio

May 3, 2014 by Scott Timberg

[contextly_auto_sidebar id="u4Dlzk0r3mKVO47xkZOYDpbn6EaCJhpT"] HOW has the Internet changed our culture, politics, and economic structures? One of the smartest answers to this complicated question comes from lefty filmmaker Astra Taylor. I spoke to Taylor, who also has a foot in the indie-rock world, about her new book The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital … [Read more...]

Reading in the Digital Age, and Cassandra Wilson

May 2, 2014 by Scott Timberg

[contextly_auto_sidebar id="dHp9P0RkCZ3f7i5yDaz9hEWZeYiwNVGG"] WHAT happens to us when we read on an electronic device? Does it alter our ability to connect with a nuanced piece of fiction? Two recent stories get into these questions from opposite angles. I wrote about this a few weeks ago, and the conversation still rages. This reported story from the Washington Post makes clear that … [Read more...]

Is Cable TV’s Heyday Over? And, Guitarists’ Brains

April 30, 2014 by Scott Timberg

[contextly_auto_sidebar id="3RwcvvUk1AC4BkVM7TnYA96GH4qbLhTJ"] SOMEWHERE between consensus and cliche is the idea that television is better than ever and has reached a new depth and intelligence. To optimists, The Wire, Homeland, Mad Men and so on show what's possible even in these difficult times for culture. My sense, as I looked into various economic models for Salon, here, is that the … [Read more...]

Looking Ahead With Astra Taylor, Tallest Tree; and Rushdie

April 25, 2014 by Scott Timberg

[contextly_auto_sidebar id="kNYZhxkhTXTFf6ORXY8ykY6cNtaDGWj8"] THE other day I spoke to Astra Taylor, a documentary filmmaker who was involved in the Occupy movement, about her new book The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. I'll be writing about her more fully shortly, but for now I'll just say this is one of the best books on the impact of digital technology … [Read more...]

The Future of Reading, and Farewell to Garcia Marquez

April 18, 2014 by Scott Timberg

[contextly_auto_sidebar id="wpIfhTFr9kKtMpx4vb9kTfcqutjYEoQT"] ONE of the reasons we're all here -- as lovers of Beethoven quartets, long Kurosawa films, serious novels, challenging visual art -- is that we experienced the joys of immersive, uninterrupted reading at an early age. There's a lot of talk -- rightly so -- about how poor kids get less of this than wealthier ones. But are the … [Read more...]

Trouble With iTunes, and More On San Diego Opera

April 11, 2014 by Scott Timberg

[contextly_auto_sidebar id="QbQ1AU6Xrnco2mhImRDlqE6xwuPHZulj"] WHEN it comes to the collapsing sales of recorded music, and subsequent loss of revenues for musicians, I go back and forth between blaming the record labels for dropping the ball, and seeing the revolution of digital music as relentless and unstoppable. Either way, musicians have been the prime casualty. But it looks like one of … [Read more...]

Do Visual Artists Still Need Galleries? And, Outsider Artist in Texas

April 9, 2014 by Scott Timberg

[contextly_auto_sidebar id="xuel5RALWv2asRk33q0uxqd8UbYD0j58"] OVER the last few years, there's been a lot of talk about disintermediation -- removing the middle man. Digital technology makes this easier, and we've seen the self-publishing model expand for artists for authors, musicians, journalists and others. Will artists abandon galleries and try to reach collectors directly? Some already … [Read more...]

Will Technology Eat Your Job?: The Second Machine Age

March 14, 2014 by Scott Timberg

[contextly_auto_sidebar id="rH31sHcPNX2fJ8BUGdeIZ6rMJes54987"] THE honest answer to that question is, Well, maybe. Today I have a Daily Beast interview with Andrew McAfee, an MIT researcher and co-author of the new book The Second Machine Age. His previous book, Race Against the Machine, took a cautionary look at how digital technology, including artificial intelligence, was leading to levels … [Read more...]

New Group Fights for Artists

February 25, 2014 by Scott Timberg

[contextly_auto_sidebar id="NvvIzO2UWJlX4uUIoRf2LjL4Y3FqhcNC"] TODAY I have an interview in Salon with rock musician John McCrea, who is announcing a group he's helped assemble, Content Creators Coalition. The group, which puts on a free rally tonight in New York that will include David Byrne, aims to bring artists and artisans of all kinds together as a way of making the creative life less … [Read more...]

Artists in the Digital Age, and Falling in Love with Technology

February 24, 2014 by Scott Timberg

[contextly_auto_sidebar id="qC3vge9cgA87c22YRZr5Mjkjf9EcoUPy"] HOW will the digital age shape the livelihood of artists, writers and musicians? There’s a new story in The New York Times that everyone who cares about the subject should read. It’s by Robert H. Frank, one of my favorite economists and the sharpest observer of the winner-take-all phenomenon, which may seem to have little to do with … [Read more...]

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I'm a longtime culture writer and editor based in Los Angeles; my book "CULTURE CRASH: The Killing of the Creative Class" came out in 2015. My stories have appeared in The New York Times, Salon and Los Angeles magazine, and I was an LA Times staff writer for six years. I'm also an enthusiastic if middling jazz and indie-rock guitarist. (Photo by Sara Scribner) Read More…

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My book came out in 2015, and won the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award. The New Yorker called it "a quietly radical rethinking of the very nature of art in modern life"

I urge you to buy it at your favorite independent bookstore or order it from Portland's Powell's.

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Here is some information on my book, which Yale University Press published in 2015. (Buy it from Powell's, here.) Some advance praise: With coolness and equanimity, Scott Timberg tells what in less-skilled hands could have been an overwrought horror story: the end of culture as we have known … [Read More...]

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