17 quotes found
“Reality is neurology, and is not absolute.”
“The internet is now a forum for public prosecution.”
“Were all photojournalists now. Its no longer enough just to write.”
“The only authentic literature of the modern era is the owners manual.”
“But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none.”
“Send these images of me through the internet out into the universe, where I will continue my out-of-body existence.”
“On to some juicy French philosophical sex-killing murder-suicide cannibal thing. You?Still the controversial Hungarian breast-cancer radioactive seed implant treatment thing. I adore y”
“We cant worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manufacture it through religion, philosophy, nationhood, politics, and some people buy it. But an artist...”
“I was aware that I was taking inordinate pleasure in small, technological events and objects, and that this was probably a semiconscious tactic meant to evade confronting certain agonizing life eve...”
“Nathan seemed to have absorbed his sense of journalistic ethics from old movies about newspaper reporters. For Naomi, internet sampling ad scratching was a completely valid form of journalism, pres...”
“She and Naomi had joked about the sexuality of camera apertures, that they needed to write a womans monograph on the symbolism and cultural relevance of the mechanics of image-making as it related ...”
“He wouldn't perform without a recording now, she was certain, like a poet working in the oral tradition who had been contaminated by the advent of the recording device and so insisted that all impr...”
“Somehow, Naomi was of another, newer, generation than Nathan, despite the fact that they were the same age. Nathan seemed to have absorbed his sense of journalistic ethics from old movies about new...”
“To not be photographed daily, even by oneself, to not be recorded and videoed and dispersed into the turbulent winds of the net, was to court nonexistence.”
“I apologize to my priestess. I underestimated her. I equated her with the global media, which is where I found those easily digestible raw materials for my banal and bourgeois account of My Life wi...”
“Everything changed after AIDS, Dr. Molnr had just explained to him. From then on, blood was more dangerous than shit.”
“It had occurred to her that the ultimate expression of Tom Wolfes saturation reporting was possibly at hand: the copycat murder of the journalist, with the murderer finishing the piece and filing i...”
