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It has succeeded in turning abject poverty itself, by handling it in a modish, technically perfect way, into an object of enjoyment.

"32,000 businesses were created in one modish postcode, EC1V"I suspect a big part of this is businesses being registered to accountants' addresses, and people registering as self-employed many of whom work for a single 'customer'.

> Pictures are the a natural resource for social networking, and nature is full of them, ripe for exploitation.> [..] it is an economic function of photography to supply the masses, by modish processing, with matter which previously eluded mass consumption.-- Walter Benjamin, 1934It's like people shifted from even that, to needing to have a photo with themselves front and center.

For it is an economic function of photography to supply the masses, by modish processing, with matter which previously eluded mass consumption.-- Walter Benjamin, lecture at the Institute for the Study of Fascism in Paris, 27th April 1934> The relatively new trouble with mass society is perhaps even more serious, but not because of the masses themselves, but because this society is essentially a consumers’ society where leisure time is used no longer for self-perfection or acquisition of more social status, but for more and more consumption and more and more entertainment… To believe that such a society will become more “cultured” as time goes on and education has done its work, is, I think, a fatal mistake.