home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Understanding McLuhan
/
Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso
/
pc
/
mcluhan.dxr
/
06866_Field_TCUM T431.txt
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1996-04-10
|
939b
|
16 lines
Mass-produced merchandise has always made some people
uneasy in its prostitute aspect. Jean Genet’s The Balcony is a
play on this theme of society as a brothel environed by violence
and horror. The avid desire of mankind to prostitute itself
stands up against the chaos of revolution. The brothel remains
firm and permanent amidst the most furious changes. In a
word, photography has inspired Genet with the theme of the
world since photography as a Brothel-without-Walls.
Nobody can commit photography alone. It is possible to
have at least the illusion of reading and writing in isolation, but
photography does not foster such attitudes. If there is any
sense in deploring the growth of corporate and collective art
forms such as the film and the press, it is surely in relation to
the previous individualist technologies that these new forms
corrode. Yet if there had been no prints or woodcuts and