Masturbating the Eye
I am so psyched, my media class is taught by this dude Stuart Ewen who is using his own self-written textbook, but it's a great one so far, he's a total pattern-addict. Either that or all of media studies is that fun to read, McLuhan not being the last to think in such fun, crazy, airy ways.
In the introduction there is a quote, that makes me giggle and love this academic bullshit so much.
"In 1930, the French surrealist writer Georges Duhamel described the visual media of the United States as defined by 'flashes, repetitions, and explosions...conceived to excite the reflexes...a kind of masturbation of the eye.'"
-Ewen, "All Consuming Images"
Ahahah. Try to get that quote out of your head next time you watch Fox News or a music video. It makes my eye hurt, actually, imagining rubbing it so hard.
In the introduction there is a quote, that makes me giggle and love this academic bullshit so much.
"In 1930, the French surrealist writer Georges Duhamel described the visual media of the United States as defined by 'flashes, repetitions, and explosions...conceived to excite the reflexes...a kind of masturbation of the eye.'"
-Ewen, "All Consuming Images"
Ahahah. Try to get that quote out of your head next time you watch Fox News or a music video. It makes my eye hurt, actually, imagining rubbing it so hard.
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