A huge volume of sensational and often toxic imagery, most of it fictional in content, inundates our minds. How do we make sense of this ceaseless flow of advertising and publicity, news and entertainment?
“Somewhere in all these boundless, compounding, swelling canyons of imprinted paper, encoded in the millions of tons of loblolly pine fiber, there must be a few words of truth, a page, a paragraph that could break the spell of fulfillment and bring back danger, need, and death.”
Richard Powers | The Overstory