Mundane Cathedrals of Civilization (2021) Ario Elami October 3, 2022 For decades now, following the standardization of television sets in people’s homes, we have lived in a world where a screen, and one’s appearance on it, has been the metric by which an individual was legitimized. This is one of those modern paradoxes: only through artifice can “reality” occur. Today, the computer screen and the endless material of the internet has mostly supplanted the television screen, yet a screen it remains.