Maxioms by John Berger
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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?.
Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the read more
Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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.
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.
