Making All Our Nowhere Plans for Nobody

Who is art for, and how does our world of copyright and creation complicate affairs?

When I was a child, my uncle sent along a VHS with three movies taped off TV. He’s primarily a French-speaker, so in hindsight I think he just taped three films that seemed vaguely age-appropriate from English television: Toys (1992), Rover Dangerfield (1991), and Charlie Chaplin (1992). It was the only time I remember being gifted videos taken from TV,…