Kraft Werk

In the cinema the mass is programmed for consumer behavior at the supermarket, and from the supermarket the mass is freed to re-program itself at the cinema.

Andy Fitch - Sixty Morning Walks

[The punctum] is this element which rises from the scene, shoots out of it like an arrow, and pierces me. A Latin word exist to designate this wound, this prick, this mark made by a pointed instrument: the word suits me all the better in that it also refers to the notion of punctuation, and because the photographs I am speaking of are in effect punctuated, sometimes even speckled with these sensitive points; precisely, these marks, these wounds, are so many points.

Imitation, manner, and style: these three forms, which can very easily be applied to Romantic thinking, find their peculiar stamp in the concept of reflection.

The "Romantic spirit seems to take pleasure in fantasizing about itself," Schlegel says of Tieck's Sternbald . . . .

Thus, by "reflection" is understood the transformative--and nothing but transformative--activity of reflecting on a form.

The task for the criticism of art is knowledge in the medium of reflection that is art.

. . . criticism is, as it were, an experiment on the artwork, one through which the latter's own reflection is awakened . . . .

Insofar as criticism is knowledge of the work of art, it is its self-knowledge; insofar as it judges the artwork, this occurs in the latter's self-judgement.