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the objects which promise unique powers can be recommended to the devotion of the masses only if they’re produced in quantities large enough for mass consumption. A product acquires prestige when it is placed at the center of social life as the revealed mystery of the ultimate goal of production. But the object which was prestigious in the spectacl... See more
Society of the Spectacle
By analyzing the content of art rather than merely experiencing it, we “set up a shadow world of ‘meanings’”—everything necessarily pointing at something else. In order to liberate ourselves from this diminishing way of seeing, she suggests valuing transparence instead. “Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of th... See more
#180: Against Self-Analysis
“We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like—we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our ostensible equals” (30).
Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton
“Deep Listening practice is process training.”
-Pauline Oliveros, “Deep Listening”
“If our need for status is a fixed thing, we nevertheless retain all say over where we will fulfil that need. We are at liberty to ensure that our worries about being disgraced will arise principally in relation to an audience whose methods of judgement we both understand and respect. Status anxiety may be defined as problematic only insofar as it
... See morecultural capital within sub-cultures
“The work does not necessarily have to be rejected if it does not look well. Sometimes what is initially thought to be awkward will eventually be visually pleasing.”
Paragraphs on Conceptual Art
https://www.artforum.com/print/196706/paragraphs-on-conceptual-art-36719
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Paragraphs on Conceptual Art
https://www.artforum.com/print/196706/paragraphs-on-conceptual-art-36719
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“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”
“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
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