Now, I could get all political here, and talk about how people secretly long for what they hate, but I don’t think that’s what’s going on. While hating this media is part of the experience, I don’t think that we enjoy this experience because it’s what we hate — at least, not usually, — I think we do so in spite of the fact that it’s what we hate.
Read MoreWithin the Context of No Context essentially read like the I Ching with anger management problems. It’s an abstract text: I’m beginning to think it best to read it more like a map than a book. It’s a work of genius and madness. Possibly, it’s the last great work of bourgeois philosophy.
Read MoreBut the painting was only the prestige medium for a certain period of time, and it has been superseded by other media, just as it, in turn, replaced other media. We can think of the pre-modern period as the age of sculpture or theater. We can think of the later modern period as being dominated by the novel and film. The postmodern period is dominated, largely by television.
Read MoreEdgar and I recently watched Season 3 of The Good Place on Netflix – we don’t have I happen to think that it has some of the best writing and performance in television,
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