This is where we're at, the substance is irrelevant, it's all about the transaction, the urge for truth is dismissed as pedantry and trivial compared to the power of the image. Dylan playing chess in Paris is the edit the media demands, a café in Paris is archetypal, the vagabond Dylan more exotic when displaced to Paris by l' echo de Paris. In future edits Dylan's opponent will be Marcel Duchamp.
This is where we're at, the substance is irrelevant, it's all about the transaction, the urge for truth is dismissed as pedantry and trivial compared to the power of the image. Dylan playing chess in Paris is the edit the media demands, a café in Paris is archetypal, the vagabond Dylan more exotic when displaced to Paris by l' echo de Paris. In future edits Dylan's opponent will be Marcel Duchamp.