His definition of the (newspaper) picture as "message without a code" rubs me the right way. Pinpoints something that I knew was wrong with our insistence that websites be graphically rich and textually poor. And then here it comes to me, from an article written sometime in the sixties, way before there was any www. Our desire to take cognitive shortcuts, to achieve the ultimate in communication, an almost telepathic togetherness with (someone else's) reality. The idealism of laziness.
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