I just got my copy of the Invisible Dragon in the mail.
It is proving to be just as sexy as hoped. 

mmmm thinking about beauty makes me so hungry

"It was, after all, the invention of illusionistic space that bestowed upon the visual language of European culture the attributes of "negativity" and "remote tense", which are generally taken to distinguish human languages from the languages of animals.  These properties make it possible for us to lie...For four centuries visual culture in the West possessed these options and exploited them.  Today we are content to slither through the flatland of Baudelairian modernity, trapped like cocker spaniels in the eternal, positive presentness of a terrain so visually impoverished that we cannot even lie to any effect in it language of images - nor imagine with any authority."

-Dave Hickey, The Invisible Dragon, pg. 36-37