Sublime

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste.

There is a pervasive illusion that, as more of the earth’s biosphere is annihilated or irreparably damaged, human beings can magically disassociate themselves from it and transfer their interdependencies to the mecanosphere of global capitalism.

“The American Room.”

All these changes make me crave the opposite: a fixed, stable, reliable way of accessing whatever culture you want. Which is exactly what earlier forms of collecting and consuming culture once offered. We took that stability for granted.

To censor pictures that are too strong, indecent or obscene was to make decisions for the reader that were not theirs to make.

It also poses the question of whether current forms of electronic separation and perceptual management are part of conditions that would inhibit or deflect the processes Sartre details.