Sam Kriss on Substack: "the response to this has been genuinely amazing. i said that just stop oil are engaged in performance art rather than politics, but as performance art goes it’s not bad. basically every single person who engaged said some variant of “yeah but how is this supposed to stop oil tho…"

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the response to this has been genuinely amazing. i said that just stop oil are engaged in performance art rather than politics, but as performance art goes it’s not bad. basically every single person who engaged said some variant of “yeah but how is this supposed to stop oil though.” you people can't read! you have ping pong balls bouncing around in your brains!

Sam Kriss

i'm completely ok with just stop oil releasing a cloud of orange cornstarch at stonehenge. just stop oil are best understood as an art collective: like a lot of artists they pretend they’re actually political activists, like a lot of artists they work by refashioning existing wo…

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