John Berger – Commonplaces

John Berger strikes again …

April 7, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

I was reading an excerpt from John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, he writes about advertising here, (where you can read the whole excerpt) and below is the paragraph on glamour evolving to realized man overthrowing capitalism. Quite the leap! Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society … [Read more…]

John Berger, art critic and author, dies aged 90

January 2, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Here is the Guardian’s announcement. Guardian’s John Berger obituary “The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied… … [Read more…]