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December 15, 2010
My interpretation of Susan Sontag's work on photography is that she is endeavouring to come to terms with digitization as a chaotic deluge in which a sheer volume of information bombards us--the consumer and citizen--- every day. The various images with varying degrees of frequency come into close proximity in brutally contradictory settings and with no necessary rational thread.
We are kinda left naked in our visual culture. We are left to narrativize such a messy surfeit of images in our culture by using the images in a pragmatic way, inserting and situating them in a patchwork of connections of our own making.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Memorial to German Jews in WW2, Melbourne Cemetery, 2010
Does this indicate an emergent style of thinking that is not necessarily bound by the interpretative narrative reason of a humanist literary culture?
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