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M/L doing exceedingly well for themselves as a roving symbiotic socialiaty, an institution "going its own way" with middle fingers raised in intentionally hyper-postured PR and social muscle glistening with heavy artist lists' ostentatious lifting. The press release states as much, all this, and more: "a social experiment." (q.v. Bourdieu; the artist maintains aloofness to the economic field while accruing its social capital etc. etc.) This the playing field for some time now, but now CAD is the grand legitimizer to concretize social relations in viewership, others will actually award you a number based on social rank within a field and continue to do so no matter how hard our eyes roll, none of this is new, what makes M/L interesting is the sort of blatant and innocent way in which it does this.