Vicious Cycles, by Greg Jackson

Theses on a philosophy of news

January 2020 Issue [Essay] Vicious Cycles Adjust Share Theses on a philosophy of news by Greg Jackson , This is what I feared, that she would speak about the news . . . about how her father always said that the news exists so it can disappear, this is the point of news, whatever story, wherever it is happening. We depend on the news to disappear . . . —Don DeLillo, “Hammer and Sickle” What a story. What a fucking story. —Dean Baquet, on the election of Donald Trump Stills from Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, which is currently screening at Northwest Film Forum, in Seattle. Beginning in 19

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