Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.” — Epicurus Copy Share Image
If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“In mass culture, imperialist nostalgia takes the form of reenacting and reritualizing in different ways the imperialist, colonizing journey as narrative fantasy… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
At times, the biggest challenge in embracing simplicity will be the vague feeling of isolation that comes with it, since private sacrifice… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
“The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to… — Steve Antin Copy Share Image
I think the global mass culture is either consciously or unconsciously sensitized to how vulnerable we are here on the planet. — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics,… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
“At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat.… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“She may resent Playboy because she resents feeling ugly in sex--or, if "beautiful," her body defined and diminished by pornography. It inhibits… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on… — Andrei Lankov Copy Share Image
“Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Their [girls] sexual energy, their evaluation of adolescent boys and other girls goes thwarted, deflected back upon the girls, unspoken, and their… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never experienced sexual violence; if a… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Never," enjoins a women's magazine, "mention the size of his [penis] in public...and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified,… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing… — Herbert Gutman Copy Share Image
Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
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