Sublime

showing all Mubarak all the time, by the 2000s had access to more than 400 national and international stations. American movies,

The art of the past no longer exists as it once did. Its authority is lost. In its place there is a language of images. What matters now is who uses that language for what purpose. This touches upon questions of copyright for reproduction, the ownership of art presses and publishers, the total policy of public art galleries and museums. As usually

powers of public surveillance and censorship while government powers are increasingly soliciting private data.

Hyperconnectivity in the cultural realm promises abundance, decommodification and democratization. Everyone has at their fingertips an infinitely rich and varieduniverse of cultural products. New cultural forms and innovative practices have proliferated. Much digital culture is freely shared rather than bought and sold. And ever-expanding circles o

internet. Landline TV, restricted for years to one or two channels in a few developed

the internet is the precarious reservation onto which culture has been driven, bleak and uncanny, inhuman in scale.