t is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia
b5100845609has quoted2 years ago
ime eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
b5100845609has quoted2 years ago
By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.
Анастасия Трошковаhas quoted10 months ago
In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe.
Анастасия Трошковаhas quoted10 months ago
grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.
Анастасия Трошковаhas quoted10 months ago
means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge—and, therefore, like power.
Диана Шпунтенковаhas quoted2 years ago
Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious
Диана Шпунтенковаhas quoted2 years ago
As death is now an offensively meaningless event, so that disease widely considered a synonym for death is experienced as something to hide.
Диана Шпунтенковаhas quoted2 years ago
Cancer is a demonic pregnancy.
Диана Шпунтенковаhas quoted2 years ago
TB, the person is “consumed,” burned up. In cancer, the patient is “invaded” by alien cells, which multiply, causing an atrophy or blockage of bodily functions.