moonchild
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... the camera showed that the notion of time passing was inseparable from the experience of the visual(except in paintings...
This is not to say that before the invention of the camera men believed that everyone could see everything. But perspective organized the visual field as though that were indeed the ideal. Every drawing or painting that used perspective proposed to the spectator that he was the unique centre of the world. The camera - and more particularly the movie camera - demonstrated that there was no centre.
Reklam
If we can see the present clearly enough, we shall ask the right questions of the past.
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which established our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words but words can never undo the that we are surrounded by it.
It makes me wonder whether celebrity culture has sort of metastasised to fill the emptiness left by religion.
