criticism
“There is no considering the labor stored in things without thinking about the social relations that brought about their production.”
-Kenneth Baker, “Some Exercises in Slow Perception”
“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
-Susan Sontag, “Against Interpretation”
“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an article for use, for arrangement into a mental scheme of categories.”
-Susan Sontag, “Against Interpretation”
“the entire enterprise of art making provides the ground for finding the limits and possibilities of certain kinds of behavior and that this behavior of production itself is distinct and has become so expanded and visible that it has extended the entire profile of art. This extended profile is composed of a complex of interactions involving factors... See more
When art, which was the common language of social inaction, becomes independent art in the modern sense, emerging from its original religious universe and becoming individual production of separate works, it too experiences the movement that dominates the history of the entirety of separate culture. The affirmation of its independence is the beginn... See more
Society of the Spectacle
“an art work is neither a physical thing nor a viewer’s mental image of it but something in between, created in attentive space”
The Battle for Attention
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/the-battle-for-attention
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The Battle for Attention
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/the-battle-for-attention
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“works of art can sensitize us to the amount and kind of labor, of human time and effort, stored in everything we use and think we want”
SOME EXERCISES IN SLOW PERCEPTION
https://www.artforum.com/features/some-exercises-in-slow-perception-212529/
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SOME EXERCISES IN SLOW PERCEPTION
https://www.artforum.com/features/some-exercises-in-slow-perception-212529/
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“there is no considering the labor stored in things without thinking about the social relations that brought about their production”
SOME EXERCISES IN SLOW PERCEPTION
https://www.artforum.com/features/some-exercises-in-slow-perception-212529/
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SOME EXERCISES IN SLOW PERCEPTION
https://www.artforum.com/features/some-exercises-in-slow-perception-212529/
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“they exemplify a kind of ethical resignation. Their use of very limited, repeated operations may be taken to express a suspicion of the meaning of any activity that cannot be undertaken with the relaxed concentration they embody. Such works discover a freedom in the unforeseeable effects of repetitive, deliberate activity, although they seem also ... See more