Artless: Stories 20192023

Title: Artless: Stories 20192023 Author: Natasha Stagg ISBN: 9781635901900 Publisher: Semiotext(e) Published: 2023 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Social Science 1555272 Publisher Description: A document of New York from an author too close to the story to be a trustworthy eyewitness. Composed of stories, fragmentary essays, and even press releases Stagg has been commissioned to write, Artless captures the media landscape lived and generated in New York during the past half decade. Since the 2016 publication of her debut novel Surveys, Stagg has positioned herself as an in-demand expert on--and critic of--the psychic experience of self-mythology within the cruelly optimistic metaverse of infinite branding. Part voyeur and part participant, Stagg continues her exploration of the branded identity and its elusive, bottomless desire for authenticit