The Accident of Art, I

"The word 'fixed' is not necessarily the best word. I used it with respect to the revolution of cinema, the revolution of movement. What I meant to say is a focal point. If there is no focus, no way to focus, there is no perception. Right now, however, globalization is the denial of focus. There is a kind of diaspora of sensations, a kind of fragmentation, explosion or implosion, that no longer promotes any focus, whether in theatre, or in music-you see it quite well in concrete music-or in the plastic arts; and this is equally true of architecture. So, instead, let’s call it focus. But perspective is a way to focus, we agree on that, no? The line of escape is not a fixed point, it’s focused."

Lotringer, Sylvère, and Paul Virilio. The Accident of Art (Semiotext(E) / Foreign Agents). Semiotext(e), 2005. 76