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In person studio visits MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA

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in-person studio visits in Sydney, Australia

Hey, I’m doing in-person studio visits in Sydney this weekend, Sunday March 2. Send me an email to bradtroemel@gmail.com with your work, links, attachments. I’ll check out the first 10 and choose 3 I’m best suited to have a conversation about. I’ll send a confirmation email with location and time afterwards.

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THE CANCELLED REPORT

Graphic design and outro video by Anson Nguyen

Song: The Notwist - One With The Freaks (2002)

Research chemicals:

Benjamin Studebaker - The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut

Sarah Schulman - Conflict Is Not Abuse

Jay Lesoleil - Cancel Culture: Part 1

Jo Freeman - The Tyranny of Structurelessness

Jo Freeman - Trashing: The Dark Side of Sisterhood

Ben Burgis - Canceling Comedians While The World Burns

Claire Dederer - Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Marquis de Posade - unrolled thread about institutions' role

various Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost Threads

Helen Lewis - The Guggenheim's Scapegoat

Michael Powell - Inside a Battle Over Race, Class and Power at Smith College

Robert Hughes - Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America

Workout supplements:

Freddie DeBoer - Of Course You Know What "Woke" Means

Freddie DeBoer - Deference Politics

Jonrafmancellectuals

Platypus Society - On Jon Rafman, ep 27

Innocent X - Jon Rafman

Mark Fisher - Exiting The Vampire Castle

Pamela C. Nogales - The Cancel Wars: The Legacy of the Cultural Turn in the Age of Trump

Ric Royer - Jobs and Death

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, 1975 film

Sam Kriss - Grander and Weirder

NPR - The Callout 

Rayne Fisher-Quann - west elm caleb and the feminist panopticon

Are.na cancel culture collection 

Related reports:

The Literalists Report

The Left Can't Meme Report

Coming Monday: THE CANCELLED REPORT

Edited by Anson Nguyen

Song by The Notwist - One With The Freaks (2002)

Los Angeles in person studio visits this Saturday

Hey, I’m doing in-person studio visits in Los Angeles this weekend, Saturday February 22. Send me an email to bradtroemel@gmail.com with your work, links, attachments. I’ll check out the first 10 I get and choose 3 I’m best suited to have a conversation about. I’ll send a confirmation email with location and time afterwards.

Currently editing 😈

I’ve estimated the average number of images in the past couple years’ reports to be around 500. This time I’m doing a daily edit tally so I’ll report back when done 👀

coming February 24, 2025: THE CANCELLED REPORT

Hey gang, the next report is coming out this month! It's the longest video I've done and required the most research (a lot of people have written about this topic) so it's taken a little longer than usual. Thank you for your patience and continued support, it's what allows me to put the necessary time in to these videos. I had a lot of fun writing this script and hopefully you'll enjoy what I cooked up. See you in 3 weeks :-)

I'm looking for reading recommendations about CANCELLATION!

Do you have a favorite essay/book/video/film about cancellation? Please share! I'm currently wrapping up the report and want to be sure I didn't miss anything

the CANCELLED report, coming soon....

i've been writing it for months, its gonna be a doozy

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here's the direct link page for every report i've made

Hey some people don't know that all of my reports can be conveniently found on this page (it's pinned at the top of my Patreon if you ever need to find it again.)

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p.s. this is a clip from The Art School Report, have you watched it yet?

tomorrow: THE ART SCHOOL REPORT drops >:)

Are you ready?

THE ART SCHOOL REPORT

Outro by Anson Nguyen

Research chemicals:

1. Judith Adler - Artists in Offices

2. Howard Singerman - Art Subjects

3. Erving Goffman - On Cooling The Mark Out

4. Tom Wolfe - The Painted Word

5. Frances Stonor Saunders - The Cultural Cold War The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters

6. Frontline doc about for profit colleges

7. Alix Rule and David Levine - International Art English

8. Fully funded art programs in America

9. Catherine Rampell - The most expensive colleges in the country are art schools, not Ivies

10. Art degree totals and tuition statistics

11. Employment statistics for art graduates

12. More fully funded art program information

13. Richard Hertz - Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia

14. Daniel Clowes - Art School Confidential original comic

15. Photos from Black Mountain College

16. Photos from Bard College in the 00s

17. Todd Oldham - Home Studio Home (photos of Ryan Trecartin-era RISD students living in their studios)

18. Ubu Web film and video archive

19. Howard Singerman - Excellence and Pluralism

20. Andrew Berardini - Sunstroked and Rigorous, notes on CalArts

21. Walter Scott - The Wendy series

Wendy

Wendy's Revenge

Master of Art

The Wendy Award

Related reports:

The Artspeak Report

The CIA Ab-Ex Psyop Report

coming October 14: THE ART SCHOOL REPORT

irl studio visits in providence, RI this afternoon

Hey, I’m doing in-person studio visits in Providence today, August 1. Send me an email to bradtroemel@gmail.com with your work, links, attachments. I’ll check out the first 10 I get and choose 3 I’m best suited to have a conversation about. I’ll send a confirmation email with location and time afterwards.

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THE HEALING REPORT

Graphic design by Anson Nguyen

Video outro by Jak Ritger

Song: Enigma - Return to Innocence (1993)

Research chemicals:

1. The Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han

2. Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han

3. The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch

4. So You Think You've Been Gaslit by Leslie Jamison

5. Tell Me Why It Hurts by Danielle Carr

6. The stars down to earth and other essays on the irrational in culture by Theodore Adorno

7. Reality shifting: psychological features of an emergent online daydreaming culture by Eli Somer, Etzel Cardeña, Ramiro Figueiredo Catelan & Nirit Soffer-Dudek

8. The Long, Strange History of ‘Manifesting’ by Tara Burton

9. The BuzzFeedification of Mental Health by P.E. Moskowitz

10. no good alone by Rayne Fisher-Quann

11. Making The Present The Enemy of The Future by Dustin Guastella

12. Prologue to an Anti-Therapeutic, Anti-Affirmation Movement by Freddie DeBoer

13. Nobody Walks Around Feeling "Valid" by Freddie DeBoer

14. Trauma Memes Are Dangerous by Freddie DeBoer

15. Women Do Not Need Lunatic Overconfidence by Freddie DeBoer

16. We Could Use a Reinvigorated Skeptic Movement by Freddie DeBoer

17. It Appears That Quasi-Mystical Self-Empowerment Culture Will Just Keep On Getting More and More Deranged by Freddie DeBoer

18. This is Why You Shouldn't Humor Woowoo by Freddie DeBoer

19. We Can't Constructively Address Online Mental Health Culture Without Acknowledging That Some People Think They Have Disorders They Don't by Freddie DeBoer

20. Here's a Little Rosetta Stone for the TikTok Era of Mental Health by Freddie DeBoer

21. "Multiple Personality Disorder" Probably Doesn't Exist, And There Certainly Hasn't Been an Explosion of It Among the Youth by Freddie DeBoer

22. Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God by Hannah Olson

23. Philosophize This Podcast on Byung-Chul Han's Achievement Society

24. Philosophize This Podcast on Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals

25. Many clips via Healing From Healing instagram

26. Power of Self Care instagram

HEALING REPORT coming Monday June 24

Get ready to be healed :-)

next up: THE HEALING REPORT

There was a time when “healing” was something people did as their physical wounds were nursed back to health. Today the word healing is applied to seemingly every esoteric ailment; people are healing from epigenetic trauma, healing from internalized whiteness, healing from their chronic deficits in attention and energy. Everyone you know is now healing from something. There’s a pervasive belief that everyone was born sick and must “do the work” to heal ourselves for the rest of our lives, even though we’re told a full recovery may never be possible. How did we come to view ourselves so antagonistically? Why does everyone now look in the mirror and see a person who’s inherently and irreparably disordered? How exactly does the healing process work? And to what degree do these disorders come from within us as we’ve been told, or are they the result of influences outside our control? NEXT UP: THE HEALING REPORT ❤️‍🩹

Chicago IRL studio visits, April 18

Hey, I’m doing in-person studio visits in Chicago Thursday April 18. Send me an email to bradtroemel@gmail.com with your work, links, attachments. I’ll check out the first 10 I get and choose 3 I’m best suited to have a conversation about. I’ll send a confirmation email with location and time afterwards.