Points of Entry - Three Rivers, Mary Jane Jacob (editor)

Because mass culture moves so fast and is constantly in motion, it gives the appearance of promoting change, but its overwhelming effect is statis, arrived at by what Roland Barthes called "humiliated repetition": "always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."

From an essay titled "Coming the Point at Three Rivers: Art/Public/Community, What Do Artists Want?" by David Levi Strauss

Posted by supersusie at January 28, 2004 11:57 PM