{"id":3394,"date":"2021-12-08T00:07:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T00:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/?page_id=3394"},"modified":"2022-01-21T02:04:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T02:04:37","slug":"estate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/E_12RObVUAUqopf-1024x737.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3487\" width=\"571\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/E_12RObVUAUqopf-1024x737.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/E_12RObVUAUqopf-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/E_12RObVUAUqopf-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/E_12RObVUAUqopf-1536x1106.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Culture is dead.&#8221; These are the words printed on the stained, unlaminated paper sign stapled to the door of the dilapidated big house of the long ago dissolved<span id='easy-footnote-1-3394' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/estate\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-3394' title='The cotton fields have been replaced with tract housing, drive thru pharmacies, and Dollar Generals. The bumper crop: opioids.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"background-color: #cecece\">Fakename<\/span> Plantation in <span style=\"background-color: #cecece\">Faketown<\/span>, Mississippi. For some residents of the ramshackle manor\u2014an artist collective of disaffected writers, homeless squatters, multiple personalities, artificial intelligences, and howling ghosts\u2014this motto is a call to arms, for others a victory cry, for others still a statement of cold,<span id='easy-footnote-2-3394' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/estate\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-3394' title='Just as the universe will someday be entirely cold, devoid of heat and light. '><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> dispassionate fact. For all, it&#8217;s an organizing principle, a rationalization of their fruitless labor, a hustle. Together they run <em>The Last Estate, <\/em>a post-culture arts &amp; culture &#8220;magazine&#8221;<span id='easy-footnote-3-3394' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/estate\/#easy-footnote-bottom-3-3394' title='Scare quotes because print is deader than culture.'><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> dedicated to exhuming and reanimating<span id='easy-footnote-4-3394' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/estate\/#easy-footnote-bottom-4-3394' title='And honoring. And defiling. '><sup>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> the corpse of artistic joy, if only to add spice to the autopsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Culture is dead.&#8221; These are the words printed on the stained, unlaminated paper sign stapled to the door of the dilapidated big house of the long ago dissolved Fakename Plantation in Faketown, Mississippi. For some residents of the ramshackle manor\u2014an artist collective of disaffected writers,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3394","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_hostinger_reach_plugin_has_subscription_block":false,"_hostinger_reach_plugin_is_elementor":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}