Maxioms by John Berger
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result read more
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and read more
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes read more
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?.
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?.
