From television, film, and photography we receive a stream of'images every day. There is no wa!- of paying equal attention to all that surplus, so we skim. The image we r en~ember is the one that most r esembles a sign: simple, clear, repetitious. Everything the camera gives us is slightly interesting. Not for long; just for now. The extension, on the human level, of this glut of images is celebrity, which replaces the Renaissance idea of'f:ame.

Fame was the reward for manifest deeds. It stood for a social agreement about what was worth doing; hence the traditional pairing of fa'~'a and what the Renaissance called zirtu, "prowess" or "accomplishment." The celebrity, as Daniel Boorstin pointed out, is famous f'or being f'amous - nothing else; hence his gratuitousness

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