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Much of what happens to us in life is nameless because our vocabulary is too poor. Most stories get told out loud because the storyteller hopes that the telling of the story can transform a nameless event into a familiar or intimate one. We tend to associate intimacy with closeness and closeness with a certain sum of shared experiences. Yet in reality total strangers, who will never say a single word to each other, can share an intimacy — an intimacy contained in the exchange of a glance, a nod of the head, a smile, a shrug of a shoulder. A closeness that lasts for minutes or for the duration of a song that is being listened to together. An agreement about life. An agreement without clauses. A conclusion spontaneously shared between the untold stories gathered around the song.

John Berger, "Some Notes on Song (for Yasmine Hamdan)"

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“Every kind of love adores repetitions because they defy time.”

— John Berger, from “From A to X A Story in Letters”, (Verso, 2008)

#berger#the witness
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“closeness with a certain sum of shared experiences. Yet in reality total strangers, who will never say a single word to each other, can share an intimacy — an intimacy contained in the exchange of a glance, a nod of the head, a smile, a shrug of a shoulder. A closeness that lasts for minutes or for the duration of a song that is being listened to together. An agreement about life. An agreement without clauses. A conclusion spontaneously shared between the untold stories gathered around the song.”

— John Berger, Some Notes on Song

#commas of care :)#berger
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“The more I understand of myself and the more I understand of the temperament of those artists whom I admire, the more I am convinced that what separates talent from genius is nothing more nor less than confidence: the ability not to be frightened of making a fool of yourself. This is a dangerous thing to say. It opens the door to sheer bravura. But that is a very different thing from the kind of confidence I am talking about. Bravura comes from the desire to impress which in turn comes from the same fear of making a fool of yourself. The confidence I speak of is not made out of the opinions of others. It comes from solitude.”

— John Berger, A Painter of Our Time

#he is my dearest............... i miss him sm#berger
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just cos a friend hadn't seen it - here's marxist art critic john berger, discussing caravaggio with some school kids. it's really interesting both as an example of pedagogy and as illustrative of how gender can work in art and how kids can relate to that almost intuitively

this is from Ways of Seeing, which is a documentary he made on demystifying art and capitalist culture more broadly, it's all available for free on YouTube and i'd highly recommend you check it out. it's truly incredible to me that he managed to get something so genuinely radical and accessible shown on the bbc in 1972!

#berger#🫂💕