The critic writes from a position of necessary alienation fr... - Siegfried Kracauer

"The critic writes from a position of necessary alienation from their own culture."

Siegfried Kracauer Solitude

Sociologist Critic German-American 1889–1966

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"The cinema is the most important art form of our time."

"Photography is truth at twenty-four frames per second."

"Mass ornament reveals the rationality of the modern age."

"History is not what happened, but what is recorded."

"Sometimes being the best means being the loneliest."

"Solitude gives us time to reflect on what matters"

"I'm not good with people, never have been."

"I feel like I'm disappearing."