Image Control Quotes

“Not only can we see metaphor “fossilized” (as Emerson writes) in our modern linguistic compounds”
― Patrick Nathan, Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist

“An aesthetics without ethics is a violent erasure.”
― Patrick Nathan, Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist

“This is precisely what the term “just politics” tries to do to politics itself—to isolate it as a concept”
― Patrick Nathan, Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist

“It’s the “we” placed in front of all these images—the implication of shared responsibility—that gives each its politics”
― Patrick Nathan, Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist

“Seeing is the primary metaphor for human understanding”
― Patrick Nathan, Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist

“There are no small fascisms.”
― Patrick Nathan, Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist