“I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.” KnowsSidesOne DayEconomicsWake UpMake SenseSupply Side Economics Author:David Brock
“Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.” TryingRaisesConservativeMagazinesEditorsCashReserves Author:David Brock
“Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?” WorldBrainAcceptingCreationPersonalityActivityConnectionsWork OutActiveGuidesLabourConceptionSpheresWorld History Author:Antonio Gramsci
“The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what constituted that thread which drew me toward Photography. I had understood that henceforth I must interrogate the evidence of Photography, not from the viewpoint of pleasure, but in relation to what we romantically call love and death.” HelpingPleasureSecretPhotographyUnderstoodEvidenceRelationWinterPhotographMonstersTreasureHelp MeThreadViewpointsLove And DeathAriadne Author:Roland Barthes
“For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this image which produces Death while trying to preserve life. Contemporary with the withdrawal of rites, Photography may correspond to the intrusion, in our modern society, of an asymbolic Death, outside of religion, outside of ritual, a kind of abrupt dive into literal Death.” IfsTryingKindMayModernProducePhotographyContemporaryPreservesRitualElsewhereLiteralModern SocietyRiteWithdrawalIntrusion Author:Roland Barthes
“Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography.” StatesArtistPracticeAchieveFieldsPhotographyProfessionContraryDefinedAssumptionMasteryImmature Author:Roland Barthes
“The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The subject,' says one handbook for amateur photographers, 'must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity.” FirstsReasonSimpleSubjectsUnityPhotographerPhotographUselessAcademicCompositionRhetoricVulgarAccessories Author:Roland Barthes
“One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is transformed into images: only images exist and are produced and are consumes ... Such a reversal necessarily raises the ethical question: not that the image is immoral, irreligious, or diabolic (as some have declared it, upon the advent of the Photograph), but because, when generalized, it completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it.” WorldHumansDesireRealizingUnitedConflictMarkRaisesPhotographOur WorldEthicalTransformedImmoralAdventReversalIllustratingEthical Questions Author:Roland Barthes