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“Suddenly, art swiveled around, and an aspect of it that seemed to have been a mere side note became the main attraction. That is how art history happens sometimes.”

“In fact, the only thing more contemporary than the obsession with smartphone culture may be anxiety about smartphone culture—there's been a flood of talk about the need to be bored, about the right to spaces of mental silence.”

“The center of the art experience is clearly migrating to a new space.”

“Gadget culture inherently pushes you towards a way of seeing that is distracted, addicted to the new and the novel, and flip about materiality, since it is based on consumer-tech obsolescence.” 

“We imagine that seeing is entirely objective: after all, the world gives us what there is to see, and we cannot do anything but open our eyes and see it.”

“This is the violent side of seeing, where the mere act of looking- an act that can also be the gentlest, least invasive way to make contact with the world- becomes so forceful that it turns a human being into a naked, shivering example of a medical condition. “

““just looking” is a lie. I am always looking out, looking for, even just looking around.”

“‘Vision’ usually means the anatomical action of the eyes, and ‘sight’ refers to al the wider senses of seeing, from suspicion to unconscious desire. I follow that distinction in haphazard way because i think that, the more neurological evidence is taken into account, the harder it is to operate anatomy from history, manners, or physcology”

“Just looking is just hunting, but it is not quite right to say it is only hunting. There is also something quietly hypnotic about just looking, something less like hunting  and more like dreaming.”