Stuart Hall Quotes
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Stuart Hall Quotes
"A camera teaches people how to see without a camera"
Dorothea Lange
quotes • *Commonplace Book
“A people or a class which is cut off from its own past is far less free to choose and to act as a people or a class than one that has been able to situate itself in history.” - John Berger
tomcritchlow.com • Ways of Seeing
They provide a slogan, a symbol or a focus that creates for viewers a comprehensive and compelling image of themselves.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
The fact that they are imprecise and ultimately meaningless is an advantage: they should not be understandable, they should merely be reminiscent of cultural lessons half-learnt. Publicity makes all history mythical, but to do so effectively it needs a visual language with historical dimensions.
John Berger • Ways of Seeing
situated within the circuits of what Jodi Dean calls “communicative capitalism,
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
depiction of people as active agents is essential for understanding Internet memes,