Snow Business

14: SNOW BUSINESS by PHILIPPA SNOW

“Art expressly sets out to reflect back to us some essential aspect of our souls, our histories, our societies, and our selves, but popular culture does the same thing by accident, or as a by-product of its very mass appeal.”

A collection of Snow's most celebrated writings, Snow Business articulates her majestic precision by the thorny, unbreakable bon between mass media, popular culture, and art. 
Kim Kardashian's novel Doll House is just as much a work of "autofiction" as the writing of Olivia Laing and Annie Eranux; Spring Breakers has succeeded in updating The Great Gatsby; and Francis Bacon still eludes everyone.

The humanism of the past five hundred years is dead. Believing man was exceptional, it opened the abyss of extinction. A new approach is needed to establish the commonality of all life on Earth. This is not just the task of politics and philosophy. It requires the effort of all those who tear down convention in order to preserve what is meaningful. That is the preservation of not only environments, but myth, irrationality, autonomy, and joy.

To these ends, Isolarii revive the ‘island books’ that emerged in Venice at the start of the Renaissance, to map the cultural forces—the perennial legends, overlooked geniuses, and emerging icons—who represent these values and prove that the human adventure is not over.