The Pretensions of Pop
by Dan Fox
Guernica
AD: Marisa Nakasone
"'The common assumption is that there are ‘real’ people and there are others pretending to be something they’re not. There is also an assumption that there is something morally wrong with pretending. My assumptions about culture as a place where you can take psychological risks without incurring physical penalties make me think that pretending is the most important thing we do. It’s the way we make our thought experiments, find out what it would be like to be otherwise.'"
by Dan Fox
Guernica
AD: Marisa Nakasone
"'The common assumption is that there are ‘real’ people and there are others pretending to be something they’re not. There is also an assumption that there is something morally wrong with pretending. My assumptions about culture as a place where you can take psychological risks without incurring physical penalties make me think that pretending is the most important thing we do. It’s the way we make our thought experiments, find out what it would be like to be otherwise.'"
