The Internet?

"Though separated from his product, man is more and more, and ever more powerfully, the producer of every detail of his world. The closer his life comes to being his own creation, the more drastically is he cut off from that life."

-- Guy Debord

Rancière

"An art is emancipated and emancipating when it renounces the authority of the imposed message, the target audience, and the univocal mode of explicating the world, when, in other words, it stops wanting to emancipate us"

"No surface provides emancipation in and of itself, the problem is to define a way of looking that doesn't preempt the gaze of the spectator... Emancipation is the possibility of a spectator's gaze other than the one that was programmed. This goes for the critical artist as well as for the window dresser."

-- From an interview published in Artforum. Read the whole thing online here.

Sverige

I made a book on Lulu.com. Its a collection of images from Sweden, paired into diptychs.
Its 32 pages, perfect bound, full color. You can buy one HERE for $12.50. This is quite cheap I think, and though the printing is not stellar, its not bad.. and its a wonderful little object. :)

A struggle

Levitating