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Everything changed after AIDS, ” Dr. Molnár had just explained to him. “From then on, blood was more dangerous than shit.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
I was aware that I was taking inordinate pleasure in small, technological events and objects, and that this was probably a semiconscious tactic meant to evade confronting certain agonizing life events which were probably not resolvable and were destined to cause unrelenting pain and distress; yet the pleasure was real, and I took it greedily.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
To not be photographed daily, even by oneself, to not be recorded and videoed and dispersed into the turbulent winds of the net, was to court nonexistence.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
She and Naomi had joked about the sexuality of camera apertures, that they needed to write a woman’s monograph on the symbolism and cultural relevance of the mechanics of image-making as it related to sex, so that, for example, stopping down the fixed 35mm lens’s diaphragm – elegantly composed of nine shutter-leaf blades – to a tight f/16 would be the equivalent of a Kegel pelvic floor exercise.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
The only authentic literature of the modern era is the owner’s manual.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
It had occurred to her that the ultimate expression of Tom Wolfe’s ‘saturation reporting’ was possibly at hand: the copycat murder of the journalist, with the murderer finishing the piece and filing it, complete with photographs and videos.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
Somehow, Naomi was of another, newer, generation than Nathan, despite the fact that they were the same age. Nathan seemed to have absorbed his sense of journalistic ethics from old movies about newspaper reporters. For Naomi, internet sampling and scratching was a completely valid form of journalism, presenting no ethical clouds on its open-source horizon. To not be photographed daily, even by oneself, to not be recorded and videoed and dispersed into the turbulent winds of the net, was to court nonexistence.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
We can’t worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manufacture it through religion, philosophy, nationhood, politics, and some people buy it. But an artist is not a manufacturer.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
We’re all photojournalists now. It’s no longer enough just to write.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
He wouldn’t perform without a recording now, she was certain, like a poet working in the oral tradition who had been contaminated by the advent of the recording device and so insisted that all improvisations be saved for posterity.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
Send these images of me through the internet out into the universe, where I will continue my out-of-body existence.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
Nathan seemed to have absorbed his sense of journalistic ethics from old movies about newspaper reporters. For Naomi, internet sampling ad scratching was a completely valid form of journalism, presenting no ethical clouds on its open-source horizon.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
The internet is now a forum for public prosecution.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
On to some juicy French philosophical sex-killing murder-suicide cannibal thing. You?”“Still the controversial Hungarian breast-cancer radioactive seed implant treatment thing. I adore y
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
Reality is neurology, and is not absolute.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
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