With a little help from my friends # 08

My Dear,

“Interpretation takes the sensory experience of the work of art for granted, and proceeds from there. This cannot be taken for granted, now. (...) Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.
(...)
What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more.
(...)
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.”[8]

Love,

Diego

[8] “Against Interpretation”. Susan Sontag, 1964