Stendhal Syndrome

n. Dizziness, panic, paranoia, or madness caused by viewing certain artistic or historical artifacts or by trying to see too many such artifacts in too short a time.
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lostcosmonaut:

christopher, don’t you think it is a bit bleak to be posting this on tumblr, where we are almost nothing but “informational bits”

vogdoid:

“Writing in 1974, he posited a trenchant diagnosis of postwar Japan, describing the country as a ‘cyclotron,’ in which ‘everything is revolving in an extremely rapid cyclone of information. Here, humans themselves become informational bits. We become unable to see anything in the midst of this cyclone. One cannot observe oneself, nor see the world. Even the freedom to question does not exist in this place.’”

— Doryun Chong, Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis


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