On January 30th, 2010, THE JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND PROTEST…

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The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest illustration from their website

…has released Issue #7 which includes this from the introduction: “The current system of precarious labor (contract work, creative work, temp jobs) sucks and we partially asked for it. Art is often used as a gentrifier and often generates more social inequality than resistance. And we think that resistance which, as a semiotic, is not transferable between contexts, though resistance as a marketing tool is.  We are suspect in the fact that “art” and “creativity” are now ubiquitous and a part of our daily life, though it doesn’t feel like what the Dadaists and the Situationists were after. It often feels like a wet sock.” (order the new issue on their website)