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Once, it seemed, the focus of media was education—imparting facts, perhaps with a bit of ideology thrown in. These days, it seems, the media’s favored gaze turns to the mirror. Websites report on TV coverage, magazines report on the Internet and newspapers review television. Put otherwise, what was a well-meaning system of internal self-awareness has grown before our very eyes into the media’s sustained, unilateral conversation with itself...
...news camera has not escaped theory unnoticed. Walter Benjamin warned in 1937 that the aestheticization of politics would lead directly to war, and proposed a counter-strategy of politicizing aesthetics. But the mechanical reproducibility of which Benjamin wrote did not consist solely of such Lacanian moments-in-the-mirror as showing the masses a videotape of themselves. He was concerned more broadly that “the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition.” The image, reproduced ad nauseum, need no longer be encountered in context; it can meet the viewer, appropriately...
Dartmouth is the mirror image of the Crimson, relying on powerful hitting to offset some shaky pitching...
...jawline, had for punishment been exiled to another dimension. That bourne from which no traveler returns. The wafer-thin blue blade was condemned to slide out of this world and to turn slowly in the black space that began on the far side of the inside of the mirror...
...that might leave the face dappled with bloodied toilet paper wads. The blades now rusting in the depository drew more blood in their time than the guillotine. For years, since the perfection of miraculous little whisker-reapers that come in cartridges, I have shaved blind, with impunity, without a mirror. I haven't cut myself since the Carter administration...