Forwarded from sketchhead
"The shriek, amplified by all the βmass-mediaβ of our time, has frightened millions of people. But it has not helped them to see more clearly the issues with which the world is grappling; it has not advanced their understanding. It has only increased and intensified the waves of panic and hate that run through the world and obfuscate innocent minds. 1984 has taught millions to look at the conflict between East and West in terms of black and white, and it has shown them a monster bogy and a monster scapegoat for all the ills that plague mankind."
Isaac Deutscher
Isaac Deutscher
The New Generation pinned Β«https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yYAMoM9-GKSlb8HZw0obk5sqeD9WFd1KA17FpvIAaTs/edit?usp=sharingΒ»
Forwarded from πππππππππ πΈπππππππ (Don Giovanni)
A new article by Jackson. https://beautifulmonsters.substack.com/p/against-imitation-by-jackson-paslay
Beautiful Monsters
Against Imitation by Jackson Paslay
βPerhaps the highest object of art is to bring into play simultaneously all these repetitions, with their differences in kind and rhythm, their respective displacements and disguises, their divergences and decentrings; to embed them in one another and toβ¦