Exiles and Expressionism: The Transatlantic Exodus of European Filmmakers
Perhaps transformation into art is one way of dealing with the overstimulation of modern life. Art binds chaotic impressions into form … Perhaps film emerged when it did because it was just the therapy people needed to bind into manageable form the chaos of modern overstimulation.
Christopher Hauke • Visible Mind: Movies, modernity and the unconscious
The spirit of the times … shows itself … significantly, in cinema and jazz. These are characteristic symptoms of our time, which has extended the humanistic ideal even to the body … The cinema, like the detective story, enables us to experience without danger to ourselves all the excitements, passions, and fantasies which have to be repressed in a
... See moreChristopher Hauke • Visible Mind: Movies, modernity and the unconscious
Capitalists build cities designed for bourgeois identity performance and commerce only to invest in them so heavily that all that can afford to exist are carefully managed environments: postmodern corporate mishmashes of symbols and architectural referents that have no discernible connection to a past, only a technologically mediated amalgam of int
... See moreDavid A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Ruins have inspired similar kinds of objectification for millennia. For many, they’re visual objects, things to romanticize, fetishize and look at from afar. It’s a simplified way of seeing that lends itself to extraction more than engagement, a kind “over-aestheticization of past eras." Henri Lefebvre explored the phenomenon in 1968, writing ... See more
