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Visual Culture & Manufacturing Desire

November 22nd, 2009

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Consumer culture — the endless manufacture of desire — is killing us. It knows no morality.
And ultimately, the newswire photo just compounds the problem, establishing its value — this clever, colorful piece of drive-by eye candy — as a cocktail of conscience with a twist of irony.

On the 27th, let’s do nothing about it. …And then, let’s do even less.

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  1. February 17th, 2010 at 05:27 | #1

    What a marvelous picture - and which of those two icons is truly beautiful? The bland supermodel or the hillside teeming with life that refuses to give in to the pressures of a predatory economy and society?

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