When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because…

Quote by John Berger

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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.

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being...

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being...

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...

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...

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this...

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this...

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,...

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...

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....

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography....

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography....

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...

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...

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...

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....

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one...

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one...