"So as to Present a Short Digression on the Difference Between Spectacle and Sight; How an Inability to See Leads Us to Seek After Solace in Spectacle." I keep running into what I consider a conflation of the visual with naive or unthinking, with what we might call Spectacle versus something with substance. I suspect this comes from the unfamiliarity many people of "letters" have with the kind of experiences of sight and seeing I've been exposed to as a visual artist. John Berger has always appealed to me, in no small measure because of his immersion in both of these worlds.
Between Spectacle and Sight
Between Spectacle and Sight
Between Spectacle and Sight
"So as to Present a Short Digression on the Difference Between Spectacle and Sight; How an Inability to See Leads Us to Seek After Solace in Spectacle." I keep running into what I consider a conflation of the visual with naive or unthinking, with what we might call Spectacle versus something with substance. I suspect this comes from the unfamiliarity many people of "letters" have with the kind of experiences of sight and seeing I've been exposed to as a visual artist. John Berger has always appealed to me, in no small measure because of his immersion in both of these worlds.