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A picture of the eclipse places the photographer paradoxically in the time before photography, not because of what it depicts but because it is a souvenir of that momentary intimation of the era of myth, when reality and experience were supposedly untroubled by mediation and everyone lived in the shared, immediate presence of being. It doesn’t matter that that feeling doesn’t look like anything, that it is unphotographable in its essence. The eclipse photo is a picture of being afraid of the dark.
Images of Unphotographability
Rob Horning
But populists, whether on the right or the left, have not yet got the world they want. The decade that started with the Arab Spring ended with tawdry insurrectionists high on conspiracy theories storming the US Capitol. As Borriello and Jäger put it, everything is now political, and society increasingly resembles a ‘permanent Dreyfus Affair’. There is a rush to draw analogies with interwar Europe, but perhaps it would be better to understand what we’re going through as a general crisis affecting the traditional supports of democratic politics.
A Circular Motion
James Butler
It’s not capitalism in the traditional sense, but an abstracted hyper-capitalism utterly divorced from getting anything done. In fact, the closer to the creation of value you get under this scheme, the farther you are from the money.
Program or Be Programmed
Douglas Rushkoff
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