#bookbear

Rachel Rabbit White’s Patreon post about Sofia Coppola, Roland Barthes’ The Fashion System, and “intimacy through image.”Watching Sofia Coppola’s films, we fall into a hypnotic, often subconscious, reading of the image. Her heroines appear lost in thought and we feel what they might feel, which is already also within us. They hover on a precipice, considering the course of their lives, if or how they could be altered, when the wonder is that there is no true escape, the world around her, with all its complex social practices and systems, is the very fabric of her existence, bound up with her being.If the question is what does it mean to be, maybe it’s most closely addressed in the world of imagery.