October 22, 2013

On fame, self-objectification

Filed under: Quotes — jessica

Success is the ethical quagmire par excellence of commodity culture because it jeopardizes our relation to dissent, to resistance, to saying no, as fame is precisely about what one is willing to do, how far one is willing to go, and how much (low in the form of high. Going low in order to get high) one is willing to say yes to. The road to fame is made up of assent. This is what gets you to the literal and figurative top. And this is why fame is almost always a parable about losing (not finding one’s way). About being led astray. “Making it” is not the struggle to become, as it’s always been said, but the willingness to be made.

Masha Tupitsyn via David Berman

 

Also: listening to a lot of Silver Jews lately, the first two LPs found me in a Tokyo record shop.

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