“Do we read nonfiction in order to receive information, or do we read it to experience art?” he asks in The Lost Origins of the Essay, another omnium-gatherum that suggests the answer to be the latter. Except, as D’Agata shows, “to receive information” can be equivalent to the experience of art.
Not so sure about this one here. There’s a lot at play to make a simple act of consuming information the same as experiencing art. For example, how well attuned the consumer is to the act of his consumption; or how the info is constructed, and particularly how the context that news resides in is constructed. The drive through menu @ Starbucks contains a lot of information, but that doesn’t mean it’s an art-like experience for a customer to encounter that menu.
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