Billy Holiday once made a simple, yet prescient observation; when she was coming off drugs, she didn’t like to watch Television. Although this could be seen as a passing comment, such an association ties imagery to narcotics as twinned devices that can both stimulate and anesthetize.
Billy Holiday once made a simple, yet prescient observation; when she was coming off drugs, she didn’t like to watch Television. Although this could be seen as a passing comment, such an association ties imagery to narcotics as twinned devices that can both stimulate and anesthetize. Building off such a conflicted prescription, this section tasks various writers to dig deep into the means and ways that mediated visions turn scenes into situations that promote a shared consciousness. To provoke this discourse between the use, effect, and sideeffects of images and narratives, artists, writers, and scholars here ‘peep’ at a single image so as to find hidden fames in the ubiquitous signs and symbols which surround and constitute our daily lives.