Mary Ellen Carroll ~ The Necessity of Not Understanding / 👍👍👍👍
Transparency architects the program of consensus and “compulsive conformity” as discussed by the Korean born, German philosopher Byung Chul Han, in his work of the same title. This is not only in the realm of culture, but mirrors economic and communication strategies for the neoliberal normalization of everything in life—where everyone gets to participate and feel good about their participation, as well as themselves. The autonomous cultural production of the artist and the dissemination/distribution method that disengages from this transparency will be biased in this presentation, wherein it will be limpid, and it will also be necessary, not to understand.