From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an. “What does it mean to demonstrate in the streets, what is the significance of that collective activity so symptomatic of the twentieth century? In stupefaction Ulrich watches the demonstrators from the window as they reach the foot of the palace, their faces turn up, turn furious, the men brandish their walking sticks, but “a few steps farther, at a bend where the demonstration seemed to scatter into the wings, most of them were already dropping their greasepaint: it would be absurd to keep up the menacing looks where there were no more spectators.” In the light of that metaphor, the demonstrators are not men in a rage they are actors performing rage! As soon as the performance is over they are quick to drop their greasepaint! Later, in the 1960s, philosophers would talk about the modern world in which everything had turned into spectacle: demonstrations, wars, and even love through this “quick and sagacious penetration” (Fielding), Musil had already long ago discerned the “society of spectacle. This is 'MILAN KUNDERA - FROM THE JOKE TO INSIGNIFICANCE TRAILER' by Bio Illusion on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. What do readers say about The Festival of Insignificance.
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