Art's Power to Change You

— I remind myself that one needn’t pay too much attention to things like the existence of Meta Glasses, but at the same time, as someone who has been reading about the male gaze, reading John Berger, Sontag, WJT Mitchell, Barthes, you name it, forever, I can’t not think about this moment. Very little, by which I mean nothing, to redeem this invention, but there will be a lot of fodder for anyone writing about seeing, surveillance. A perversion of photography. I’m sure you could form interesting insights as to its difference from street photography and how this is just creepy, and in no way related to the art form. There are no parameters, for one, no ethics, and street photography has those. No art either. There are so many reasons why these glasses suck, but I can see them being used in secret shopper scenarios etc and that’s one more reason to hate them. — I’m a terrible person, a true monster, and also clearly am back to reading too much on AI this past week (I’m on a full stop in…