With the bombardment of images available on websites like Facebook tumblr and google image search it has become so easy to disengage with a multitude of images on the search for something specific. Therefore rather than being perceptive and open to the possibility of interpreting and thinking about what an image might be communicating we end up on a very narrow minded path towards discovering more of the same, this happens in many forms of collecting, the specificity of the search for an aesthetic that is particularly pleasing becomes an insatiable desire that cannot be interrupted by critical thought. We become desensitised of course, but more than that we become rarified and closed minded, by being overwhelmed we are forced to either get specific or care about nothing. But the search for one type of trainers or one ideal of feminine beauty disengages any critical enquiry and because we are not thinking about the conceptual value of images we cannot learn from them. This culture of images unaccompanied by words or explanations leaves a vapid simulacrum where textured and varied experience becomes replaced by the impulsive hunt for pleasurable imagery.
Just sayin
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