[8] In January 2016, Bernstein, working with Rubin, debuted the stage show Bieber Bathos Elegy at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
[11] Bernstein's cultural criticism has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Htmlgiant, The Volta, The Believer, Coldfront, Lemonhound, Hyperallergic, The Fanzine, and The Boston Review.
The Goldsmith aesthetic, along with that of postpostmodernism in general (Queer Theory, Speculative Realism, Metamodernism, Gaga Feminism, Alternative literature, New Sincerity), has brought a decline in incisive and dialectical criticality, an overemphasis on social networks, slapdash viral superstars, and a hyper-mediated institutionalization of affect through an unconscious structuralism that masks itself as a romantic return to sheer materiality and the great outdoors.
[20] According to Capilano Review, Drawing on thinkers from Deleuze to Lacan to Love to Ngai to Badiou to Barthes to Perloff, and combining a Zizekian X-ray vision with the biting 'you can't scare me' of youth, Notes constitutes Bernstein's irruption into / refusal of the institutional avant-garde.
Symptoms include youth culture, the avant-garde, queer theory, alt lit, and social media…Keeping a space open can be a political act, and that's what Bernstein's doing with his writing, or his persona, and maybe there's no difference.