Jan 22, 2026

John S Burges on Prosumerism visual

 https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/09/28/ways-of-seeing-john-berger/

Media may be a low influence, it's trying to get through with licensing monopoly worship.

Well, it all started and still hangs high within the art world, between the hackneyed commercial and the romantic literary.

A publicity picture, showing envy of to consume. With the motivators, with the Fear, exclusivity guilt, greed, need for approval, convenience and pleasure.

There it goes, with the visual, of publicity, of glamour. That's what the ways of living, or the dejourement of the hustle trance.


It can feel like this, even.

Well, we are in the society we are.