Sublime

There is too much culture for culture to have manners, method or modulation. Things don’t cohere. They don’t line up in the beautiful diffusion waves running vividly in from the margin. This means it’s much harder to figure what and when culture will reach us. No more taking a position in the diffusion stream, as an innovator, early adopter, or

But the object that was prestigious in the spectacle becomes mundane as soon as it is taken home by its consumer—at the same time as by all its other consumers. Too late it reveals its essential poverty, a poverty that inevitably reflects the poverty of its production. Meanwhile, some other object is already replacing it as justification of the

Pour André Gorz, le sartrien et le marxiste, l’individu existe en se produisant lui-même, c’est la marque de son autonomie existentielle. Mais cette autonomie est largement compromise lorsqu’il est « produit » dans ses comportements et dans son imaginaire comme consommateur pour des marchandises.

Modern society is without any concept of dignity, worth, or regard. Today the only thing which sets one person apart from another is his or her degree of fame.

Amid the mass amnesia sustained by the culture of global capitalism, images have become one of the many depleted and disposable elements that, in their intrinsic archiveability, end up never being discarded, contributing to an ever more congealed and futureless present.