lunes, junio 03, 2013

TV



What's so inhuman about television it is not that it chops everything up and interrupts it with ads, although that's already bad enough. Far worse is that everything on the air becomes an ad itself, an ad for the existing conditions. All broadcast images settle down to a common, nauseating transmission, a kind of pretentious contempt. No image leaves you alone. They all want something from you.

Wim Wenders: Alice in den Städten

sábado, junio 01, 2013

Tradition


When tradition thus becomes master it does so in such a way that what it 'transmits' is made so inaccessible, proximally and for the most part, that it rather becomes concealed. Tradition takes what has come down to us and delivers it over to self-evidence; it blocks our access to those primordial 'sources' from which the categories and concepts handed down to us have been in part quite genuinely drawn. Indeed it makes us forget that they have had such and origin, and makes us suppose that the necessity of going back to these sources is something which we need not even understand.

Martin Heidegger