“Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: che...” — Mark Fisher Quote

Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: cheap to make, it does ideological work even when it is not giving guru status to dull business people. It fits in with capitalism's anti-mythic myth: the idea that we have liberated ourselves from the dangerous illusions allegedly propagated by art and politics.

Some IMDB viewers complain that 'Beloved' should have been reclassifed as Horror... well, so should American history.

The 1890s was perhaps the most Gothic decade ever: 'Dracula,' 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and 'The Time Machine,' not to mention 'Heart of Darkness' and 'The Interpretation of Dreams,' were all written between 1890 and 1899.

When pop can no longer muster a nihilation of the World, a nihilation of the Possible, then it will only be the ghosts that are worthy of our time.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art.

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.