Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato’s Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature.

Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.

My ignorance is not charming.

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism