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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
"Against Interpretation"
Against Interpretation is an essay by Susan Sontag that criticizes the prevailing emphasis on interpreting and analyzing works of art, arguing for a focus on experiencing and appreciating art for its own sake.
static1.squarespace.comIn these conditions of ontological precarity, forgetting becomes an adaptive strategy.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
David Brooks • The Relationalist Manifesto
It is attained not by the making of similar individuals, as theories of mass society used to assert, but through the reduction or elimination of differences, by narrowing the range of behaviors that can function effectively or successfully in most contemporary institutional contexts.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
‘proscenium arch’
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
As Harold Bloom has shown, the real American religion is “to be free of other selves.”
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
two opposites are assimilated and a conflict is stilled.