Status Updates From The Visual Culture Reader

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-"a computer made in Malaysia as a new kind of orientalist image."

"Dream work turns out to be real work."

IMPORTANT NOTE: -It's not so mcu that Capitalism produces "the Image", but that it turns "the Image" into Catastrophe; and profits from this (as it profits from all catastrophes, something brilliantly exposed and explored by Naomi Klein).

-"each [image] exists here as an intensity in an endless series of [spectralized] flows."

-"Viewers do not encounter the techno-imaginary only on the screen, its logic is inside them."

-"One begins to feel that the technological is the repressed of the theory of the unconscious." [...] "the unlanguageable medium exerts its invisible pressure on the appearance of things."

-"while suggesting that 'theory' as the critical thought which follows on the heels of philosophy's demise was film theory all along."

_"Cinema was to a large extent the hyper-development of commodity fetishism," says Jonathan Beller, "...so was advertisement" say I

-"grasping mediation as the extraction of productive labor (value)" Jonathan Beller

Terry Semel from Warner Brothers to Yahoo

"Garbage becomes the morning after of the romance of the new."

Roland Barthes!

some good stuff! more than I can recall easily..

Such a thick volume, and while the essays are all informative, they're also very hard to digest. Wouldn't recommend this book to non-art/design major people.