Michael Hutter.
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Month: July 2012
Africa, Gabon, Punu peoples, unknown maker
Mask (mukudj)
Late 19th century
Wood, kaolinThe Hood Museum of Art
veins and the like.
Sierra McKenzie. The light off the painter’s canvas does affect this model’s skin tones, yet her natural complexion is very fair, almost translucent.
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In short, the mass media are interested in attracting audiences with buying power, not audiences per se; it is affluent audiences that spark advertiser interest today, as in the nineteenth century. The idea that the drive for large audiences makes the mass media “democratic” thus suffers from the initial weakness that its political analogue is a voting system weighted by income!
Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky
