Light of the Edge
Jean Baudrillard's enchantment of light, sunset/sunrise, Zabriskie Point.
“There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room,” writes Jean Baudrillard in America (1986), where large portions of text are devoted to painterly and psychedelic descriptions of how light and space work in Los Angeles, the weirdly wired ways the screen and the air around the screen work on each other and blend. The light’s geom…