{"id":560,"date":"2015-01-16T14:55:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T22:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/?p=560"},"modified":"2015-01-16T15:04:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T23:04:34","slug":"culture-crashing-is-the-internet-killing-our-creative-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/2015\/01\/culture-crashing-is-the-internet-killing-our-creative-class.html","title":{"rendered":"Culture-crashing – Is The Internet Killing Our Creative Class?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jpeg\"<\/a>Scott Timberg, an arts journalist and author of the CultureCrash<\/a> blog on ArtsJournal, has a new book out called… Culture Crash<\/a>. It’s Scott’s attempt to look at how the digital revolution has impacted artists. The tagline of the book – “The Killing of the Creative Class” – gives you an idea of what he thinks has happened.<\/p>\n

His premise is that artists are having a more and more difficult time making a living from their work. Ultimately, he thinks, without viable ways of supporting themselves, artists will top making art and do other things. We, as a society will be impoverished by this. We sat down to talk about the book last month in LA. Have a listen:<\/p>\n