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# 61
Yes, That’s What I Think …
Adrian Rifkin
It is. It’s a grimly Adornian thought about now, about kitsch, the threat of the seductive, the wicked witch or some other smooth-talking phantom of consumerism’s triumph, but yes, I do think this. 1 That the death of the matte screen for computers, TVs, tablets, or telephones is a terrible disaster. It’s a vain and obscuring gleam, the gleam of a current vanity, but nothing so grand as a vanity of vanities, rather the vanity of not owning up to short sight or a slight deafness, of not…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2015
Category
Technology, Aesthetics, Contemporary Art
Subjects
Video Art, Animation & Cartoons, Kitsch
# 14
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2010
Category
Education, Contemporary Art