The boredom of his childhood - the space created for him to just be - lives on in its impact today in big and defining ways.
In its own, self-defining way it is a masterpiece, and the fact that it is an art gallery is almost wholly irrelevant.
When asked which of his own productions, if any, he would like to see thought of in a similar, subgenre-defining way, he pointed to "Surge," which features Wynter Gordon.
Think it through: hanging out, fucking off, whatever, is about sliding out from under any and all supposed-tos and is also a defining way-of-being.
Still, there's little doubt that Jackson lost something self-defining along the way.
In one of her newspaper articles, she has shown a liberal attitude to sexuality ("most [women] simply have, somewhere, a fantasy about having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women").
I define private much the same way Justice Potter Stewart handled defining hardcore porn.
But in many ways her defining role, and the one that first brought her to public attention, was highly sexualised: that of Bess in Breaking the Waves.
It establishes a "mammaliform" clade and is in many ways a defining event in mammalian origins.
Recognition of pain measured by interview and recognition of pain measured by prescription of analgesics resulted in different recognition rates: 35 40% vs. 61.2 69.7%, presumably because they reflect two ways of defining pain recognition.
It's also possible that she would use it as further evidence that old forms of media are not only dead but were never all that great in the first place, and that she should aim to showcase her generation-defining voice in ways other than in book form.
