Ways of Seeing

You're actually better off watching the tv programme....which the book was based on.

My dairy was better.

>>9272730
>t. moocow

It's good. Even what I would consider to be the naive elements in his thinking are worthwhile, insofar as they are expressed with such sincerity. However, I also watched the tv programme, so my sense of the tone of the book has been coloured by the man himself. That's probably legit, though.

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>>9272721

Holy shit, that french translation. Seeing the seeing. Any further comment is welcome though, I'm an art-ignorant and it seems to be a good approach.

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I really liked the show, always meant to go back and read it.

That being said, I feel like if you're read: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, you've probably read it all anyway.

Disliked it when I read it at 16-- thought the polled questions by and large rigged so that Berger could gain the responses he was too obviously looking for. Perhaps my opinion of it now would be different, but I no longer own it.

John Searle the Neoncon is pretty impressive

something something marxism

>>9274078
don't you something something marxism me

It really reinvented the wheel for me

>>9274584
This is really painful when it happens in poetry. Especially when it's a friend's who has received some positive critical recognition.

>>9274598

What are you circumlocuting, friendo?

>>9274607
Re-hash of a polemic- or political- bint pitifully disguised as poetry, and yet in some quarters accepted as such, is a painful literary experience as per the witnessing thereof, sempai-- ...

>>9272728
Is this irony?