2010-07-25

Imaginary Conversations

(A posthumous conversation with Andy Warhol, 2010)

"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic but I love plastic. I want to be plastic."
intepretation: on plasticity of meaning

"once you 'got" Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America in the same way again."
intepretation: popular, also known as the lowest common denominator for the average man that doesn't exist.

"Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?"
intepretation: in the forever now, progress is moot

"I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep."
intepretation: the bio-political

"It's the movie that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it and how to look how you feel about it."
intepretation: Social "Programming"