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Every kind of petty documentation, psychic laundry list, and autistic gesture has been performed, taped, pinned up, filed, and photographed. Every sort of odd act, from lurking below a ramp in a gallery and masturbating to fantasies about the people walking overhead (Vito Acconci) to patterning one’s body with sunburn (Dennis Oppenheim) has come in
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Carlo Joerges
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Renato Guttuso,
John Berger • Bento's Sketchbook
Their definition of culture was dominated by two large facts. First, cultural alternatives were now multiple, not vertically ranked; they spread across a field of choice generated by mass production and machine reproduction, and did not rise from the corner sweetshop to the Athenaeum Club. Second, books and painting were no longer socially dominant
... See moreRobert Hughes • The Shock of the New
A film like Wall-E exemplifies what Robert Pfaller has called ‘interpassivity’: the film performs our anti-capitalism for us, allowing us to continue to consume with impunity.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
Este tipo de capitalismo, inspirado en Milton Friedman y Friedrich von Hayek, invoca libertad económica y un Estado que regule lo menos posible, y se ha vuelto sinónimo de liberalismo económico en los últimos cuarenta años. Pero, a la vez, ha generado una contradicción inherente en el liberalismo.
Piero Ghezzi • El Estado Productivo
Be’ sì, ci sono e ci devono essere tante sfaccettature. Uno è libero di fare anche un film horror, ci deve essere spazio per tutto, ma serve la capacità da parte di chi osserva di capire cosa sta guardando. Mia