“The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.”
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: […]
From the article:
“……While parents may fear kids’ easy access to porn, an article in the December issue of the American Academy of Pediatrics Journal says social media has a much bigger influence on adolescent attitudes about sex and body image …..
Teens care more about what their friends are doing than what any celebrity or porn […]
“There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.”
H.L. Mencken
And, no… no one used a selfie stick here!
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“It is absolutely true that there’s less demand for autographs. There’s a diminishing demand for print journalism. There’s a diminishing demand for stamps. There’s a diminishing demand for autographs,” Hecht, who is also a financial adviser for Morgan Stanley, told New Republic about the hobby, which came of age in 19th century United States when […]
“Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep?
To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground gives way under him, and the dream begins.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Forget post-coital cuddling! According to a poll by consumer electronics site Retrevo.com, 36 percent of people under the age of 35 check their Facebook and Twitter accounts…
Some other sex facts…
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
Susan Sontag On Photography
And later I thought, I can’t think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.
Nic Roeg
Julie Christie in Nic Roeg’s ‘Don’t Look Now’
Renowned British neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield says modern technology is not only changing the way we interact, it is changing the wiring in our brain.
Professor Greenfield, who is also a member of the British upper house, says the hyper-connectedness of today’s youth gives them shorter attention spans and makes them more narcissistic, more susceptible to […]
Nudity is an essential part of all primitive agricultural rites … By unveiling the body, and especially the sexual organs, women more effectually represented the goddess of fertility, and more effectually as her representatives, or through their own powers, magically conveyed fertility to the fields.
John Arnott Macculloch, The Religion of the Ancient Celts
