{"id":54489,"date":"2023-01-07T12:08:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T17:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=54489"},"modified":"2023-01-08T22:24:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T03:24:51","slug":"is-2023-the-year-of-anti-nihilist-gen-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2023\/01\/is-2023-the-year-of-anti-nihilist-gen-z.html","title":{"rendered":"Is 2023 the Year of Anti-Nihilist Gen Z?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The British magazine Prospect has just published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/society-and-culture\/2023-is-the-year-of-anti-nihilism-philosophy-tiktok-kafka-camus\">article<\/a> making the case \u2014 making the claim is perhaps a better way to put it \u2014 that  &#8220;2023 could finally hold a salve to the dark, glittery tunnel we\u2019re living inside.\u201d Mixed metaphor aside, good luck with that.  <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure 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(bdr)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriture-absent-minds-bdr-300x215.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriture-absent-minds-bdr.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriture-absent-minds-bdr.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriture-absent-minds-bdr.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriture-absent-minds-bdr-300x215.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">and<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriturebiting-elbows-bdr.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-attachment-id=\"54162\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/ecriturebiting-elbows-bdr\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriturebiting-elbows-bdr.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6s&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1666177890&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.03030303030303&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ecriture=biting-elbows (bdr)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriturebiting-elbows-bdr-300x225.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriturebiting-elbows-bdr.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriturebiting-elbows-bdr.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriturebiting-elbows-bdr.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriturebiting-elbows-bdr-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">are hardly<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriture-mirages-bdr.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-attachment-id=\"54160\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/ecriture-mirages-bdr\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriture-mirages-bdr.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6s&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1666013368&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.058823529411765&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ecriture-mirages (bdr)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriture-mirages-bdr-300x225.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriture-mirages-bdr.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriture-mirages-bdr.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriture-mirages-bdr.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ecriture-mirages-bdr-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">of the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British magazine Prospect has just published an article making the case \u2014making  the claim is perhaps a better way to put it \u2014 that  &#8220;2023 could finally hold a salve to the dark, glittery tunnel we\u2019re living inside.\u201d Mixed metaphor aside, good luck with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/5-IMG_7804.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-eaR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54489"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54710,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54489\/revisions\/54710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}