A Writer's Notebook

A Writer's Notebook

"Noisy Insignificance"

I read this quote yesterday and I'm still thinking about it.

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Summer Brennan
Apr 20, 2022
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Guy Debord in 1952

Tweeted yesterday by writer and bookseller Stephen Sparks:

"When social significance is attributed only to what is immediate, and to what will be immediate immediately afterwards, always replacing another, identical, immediacy, it can be seen that the uses of the media guarantee an eternity of noisy insignificance." — Guy Debord

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