V E R / S A C R U M

32. Paris. I write about art. You can read my writing here.

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Vanessa Paradis | © Ellen von Unwerth

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Love in Florence, Young Couple in an Affectionate Embrace on the Lungamo, Florence  by Vincenzo Balocchi

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In today's state of hyperactivity, where boredom is not allowed to emerge, we never reach the state of deep mental relaxation. The information society is an age of heightened mental tension, because the essence of information is surprise and the stimulus it provides. The tsunami of information means that our perceptual apparatus is permanently stimulated. It can no longer enter into contemplation. The tsunami of information fragments our attention. It prevents the contemplative lingering that is essential to narrating and careful listening . . . In the process of digitalization, . . . information acquires an altogether different status. Reality itself takes on the form of information and data. For the most part, we perceive reality in terms of information or through the lens of information. Information is an idea—that is, a re-representation. When reality takes the form of information, the immediate experience of presence withers. When digitalization gives everything the form of information, reality is flattened.

Byung-Chul Han, The Crisis of Narration

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Ancient Roman Mosiacs

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Sarah Moon, Le Caire, Cairo, 1994

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Virginia Woolf, from a journal entry featured in The Early Diaries of Virginia Woolf

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Une femme en jaune en train de lire, Rome 1981

Photo by Julien Morel

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A Village Romeo (Ronald Chase, 1971)

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“Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”

— Lewis Carrol

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I just feel so alone, even when I'm surrounded by other people.

Lost In Translation, 2003 dir. Sofia Coppola

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