August 05, 2003
the pleasure machine
This is the way our culture produces new images of celebrity.
She is a pop celebrity. We are being constructed as her fans even though are unimpressed.
Don't believe me? Look They're fans of this artist of Republican celebrity.
From the archives. That was before I released that I could come to know my own modest qualities through the differences with celebrity.
That's how the pleasure machine that creates celebrity works.
It's early days yet. The republicans have yet to connect to the pleasure machine; that the large network of skills and technologies that produce and distribute images of desire that seduces us into a world where we can belong.
It is through images of celebrities that I experience my feelings and perceptions as belonging to a common world--what Kant in his Critique of Judgement called sensus communis.
She looks painfully thin!
Posted by: dj on August 6, 2003 04:50 PMI've manipulated the image by stretching it a bit.
Posted by: Gary Sauer-Thompson on August 6, 2003 07:17 PM