Anthony Hassett
In a conclusion formulated by Plato, theatre is the place where morons are invited to see other people suffering. According to the bard, what the theatrical scene offers to the spectator is the spectacle of illness, otherwise known as pathos -a manifestation of desire and suffering. That is to say, the particular effect of theatre, according to Plato, is to transmit the illness that makes characters suffer, directly into the theatrical audience, in much the same way Greek philosopher's duped their pupils into having sex through the persistent viewing of Jeff Stryker videos.
In a nightmare association that's quite effective, the situation of those who live in modern society is practically identical to that of the shackled prisoners, or spectators, in Plato's theatrical cave. Only now, with the monstrous beast we call the Internet absorbing all desires and energies into its belly, human beings are tied together by a different sensory fabric -not chains and shadows- but a melody of technological, inhuman, harmony. So the putative paradigm of contemporary aesthetics should be sought not in counter-posed appearances, but in the voice of an infant machine whose dramaturgy is the sensory-motor regime of social networking, Google, and Gang Bang Trannies.
The illustrated books and small portraits exhibited in California to Cairo are the results of a ten year romp around the globe, auto-poetically organizing images into a larger pattern, a la Google.
-Anthony Hassett
In a nightmare association that's quite effective, the situation of those who live in modern society is practically identical to that of the shackled prisoners, or spectators, in Plato's theatrical cave. Only now, with the monstrous beast we call the Internet absorbing all desires and energies into its belly, human beings are tied together by a different sensory fabric -not chains and shadows- but a melody of technological, inhuman, harmony. So the putative paradigm of contemporary aesthetics should be sought not in counter-posed appearances, but in the voice of an infant machine whose dramaturgy is the sensory-motor regime of social networking, Google, and Gang Bang Trannies.
The illustrated books and small portraits exhibited in California to Cairo are the results of a ten year romp around the globe, auto-poetically organizing images into a larger pattern, a la Google.
-Anthony Hassett
The Cigarette After Series
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