On Jerry Saltz

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VANITAS EST NOBIS

Karl Marx Muses Over the Kardashians & Instafame

One last thing about Kim Kardashian’s instafame: are you surprised that she gets hundreds of thousands of dollars for one sponsored post she uploads? KM: The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

Art, like life, needs to be restated constantly and protected daily.

Isn’t pleasure an important form of knowledge? Is vanity a devil in these practices? Vanity is built-in to all of us. It is a feature; not a bug. Self-preservation.

Tracing the limits of criticism is not only a question of truth but also a matter of decision.

The perfect dictatorship begins when the regime turns people spying on themselves, vigilant, infamous. Anytime, anywhere, the other is not a we.

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