Supertramps
BRUCE HAINLEY TO ANNETTE WEISSER Houston, February 16, 2026
In her recent letter to Bruce Hainley, Annette Weisser lamented the current wave of AI-slop and its role in normalizing fascism, while also reflecting on the challenges of raising a teenage son at a time when misogyny seems to be fully back in trend among many young men. In his response, Hainley picks up where Weisser left off, extolling the need for ambiguity in a world in which the information we provide is instrumentalized and the information offered to us usually serves an ulterior purpose. While Hainley sees little evidence of such complexity in Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, he finds relief in Larry Johnson’s current exhibition in Cologne, which takes a multilayered and nuanced approach to interartistic dialogue and Hollywood’s hidden gay history.
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