If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
Noam Chomsky
Essays on art from
A Second Look
a documentary series e-publications
“The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void…. That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.” Jean Baudrillard
“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.” Guy Debord
