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Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age QUOTES

Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age QUOTES

1 " Imagination is linked as much to an awareness of the insufficiency of the world as we find it as it is to fantasy; it grows from a desire to assert contrary or alternative worlds in the face of the given. "

― Sven Birkerts , Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age

2 " It sounds so good: the futurism of The Jetsons meets the self-actualization of Abraham Maslow. "

― Sven Birkerts , Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age

3 " The primary material conditions for the making of beauty have not changed. But the frame of attention, and the context of mattering—these have. "

― Sven Birkerts , Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age

4 " The new dispensation—near-perfect retrievability—reorients us, not so subtly altering our expectations and our way of encountering our reality. It feeds the great illusion of our competence, our mastery, even as it pampers us and gives us a sense of being catered to (the psychological implication being that we’re worthy). These new assumptions "

― Sven Birkerts , Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age