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The Art World In David Joselit's After Art

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It’s no great epiphany that the progression of technology has a profound impact on the way a society operates. In our current point in time, we are experiencing a loss of the singular. We are a society of publication and reproduction on a massive scale. Nothing is its own entity anymore; rather our world functions as a series of networks that connect both people and things. Countless images are generated, shared, manipulated and forwarded in the blink of an eye. As a result, we must now face the question of what makes these images art, if we can still call them that. David Joselit discusses this stimulated era for the art world in his book “After Art”. He begins by explaining that with the rise of new technology and the increase in mass

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