Browsing Category John Berger
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A Tax on Shivering
If one of the functions of writing is to make the reader see, and see again, here is a brief list of what John Berger made visible. Paintings, photographs, ...
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John Berger, Enemy of Neoliberal Capitalism
By JONATHAN CRARY I’m going to begin with an observation that I believe would have been of particular interest for the person whose work brings us together today. ...
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Berger as Storyteller
By ANNIE WYMAN What was storytelling for John Berger? In some ways, it was just exactly what you or I might guess it to be: plots, characters, ordered ...
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On John Berger’s Radical Art Criticism
By RATIK ASOKAN Robert Lowell once expressed his desire to be: Like Mallarmé who had the good fortune to find a style that made writing impossible It’s a ...
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Ways of Seeing Everything
By JANE GAINES “Every image,” John Berger wrote, “embodies a way of seeing.”[1] Because of this embodiment the historian who comes later can study the way in which ...
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John Berger as a Theorist for Politics
By BARNABY RAINE On the little island where I was born, where we lack the cultural wealth of cable news – of CNN and Fox – our ...
