Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

Quote by John Berger

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Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism...

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism...

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as...

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as...

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork....

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork....

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone,...

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone,...

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself....

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself....

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only...

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only...

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like...

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like...

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not...

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not...

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing...

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing...

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for...

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for...

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and...

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and...

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and...

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and...

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the...

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the...

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an...

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an...

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist...

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist...

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential...

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential...