Comparative Commentaries to Go: A Study After Death
This Comparative Commentary to Go is inspired by a visit to a market and, prompted by the visit, a memory of reading an old essay republished in John Berger’s Understanding a Photograph. The market was in Thailand and the market-seller, a young Burmese man, was selling a range of items, but mainly counterfeit t-shirts and cheap prints. He tried to cajole me into buy some of his goods and, having strenuously resisted...