It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
JOHN BERGERPublicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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