Leave the Dimes Square Kids Alone!

antiart’s viral declaration last year that Dimes Square is dead and nothing good came out of it is almost convincing. After all, it’s hard to see that any good art has come out of anywhere in the content surfeit of the last decade. But while his essay skewers the scene’s film and music output, it overlooks the writing. Before we drag the corpse of Dimes Square through the streets of Milan and mutilate it beyond recognition (the fate not just of fascist dictators and their mistresses, but of any scene when it gets distorted into myth), it’s worth asking what its writers have left behind and whether it has truly run its course.