Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Scotophobia


"The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night."

Astral America (1988)

Jean Baudrillard, sociologist and philosopher (1929-2007)

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