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in art journals the advertisements of the galleries are not to be distinguished from the texts that discusses the luxury gods they sell. Conversely, the best camouflaged journals of the advertising industry publishes cultivated and unassailable texts, which precisely delivers a culturally heightened image of the consumer of commodity production, while the ware (for instance cars or ceramics) is seen in a marginal or accidental way. In this way you can perfectly well advertise for a faience bathroom in a philosophical journal [...].3
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3) Maria Perniola, La società dei simulacri, Bologna: Cappelli, 1983, pp. 131–154, here quoted from the Danish translation in: UNDR. Nyt Nordisk Forum nr. 56, Silkeborg, 1988, s. 82–83, my emphasis.