AESTHETIC JOURNALISM by ALFREDO CRAMEROTTI
When researching for a lecture by the artist URIEL ORLOW at college I read a preview of this book and found links to my work and ideas. Here are some quotes that I am thinking about. Sally O’reilly in her introduction says ‘we must think of how to inform with a light touch, how to yield pleasure while maintaining a political grasp, how to know and to dream at one and the same time’ p9
‘The distiction between fiction and non-fiction is false (…) there is only narrative’ (Suchan 2004:309) p17
‘I would like my books to be a kind of tool-box which others can rummage through to find a tool which they can use however they wish in their own area (…) I don’t write for an audience, I write for users, not readers. (Foucault 1994 (1974):523-524) p17
‘…….employ fiction as a subversive but meaningful and effective agent of reality’ p22
‘….one of the main aspects of aesthetic Journalism:to bring the investigative tradition back to a societal or political function. Creativity has to widen its boundary perpetually, even accepting stratagems of ‘creative cheating’ working to generate a space for communication where there is none, abusing an assignment to pass on to the reader, viewer or listener a range of different information’. p29
‘The point is that art is not about delivering information: it is about questioning that information’. p29
