"Against Art and Culture" by Liam Dee offers a critical examination of the relationship between art and culture. The book develops the concept of 'art/culture' to describe the unity of these two domains, which revolve around named work, idealized creative subjectivity, and surplus meaning. Dee argues that prevailing critiques of art and culture often serve as a defense of 'true' art or culture against 'inauthentic' manifestations, ultimately restricting creativity to the service of the bourgeois commodity regime. Through a nuanced analysis of commodification and larger ideological power structures, it is demonstrated how the surplus of art/culture is used to legitimize the bourgeois status quo rather than question it. The book also explores the possibilities of a post-artistic and cultural world based on existing practices that challenge the identity of art and culture, as well as speculations about the integration of play and aesthetics into social life. This comprehensive negation of art and culture represents a unique contribution to cultural criticism.