William Gibson Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you don’t know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one’s own culture.

  William Gibson

  Memories, Culture, Fifteen

• I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. That fascinates me, because it seems to be symbolic of something going on in the culture itself, and I also have a sort of innate admiration for the stubbornness it requires to actually make those things physically. It's become incredibly difficult. In North America, we've largely forgotten how to do it.

  William Gibson

  America, Interesting, People

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

• The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started.

  William Gibson

  People, Way, Culture

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

• A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It wasn't an aberration, though I realize that in retrospect. I grew up in the part of the U.S. where all of Cormac McCarthy's novels are set and that's a pretty violent place.

  William Gibson

  Growing Up, Culture, Aberration

  Source: craphound.com

• There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

  William Gibson

  America, Culture, Violence

  Source: craphound.com

• I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, "Whoah! What's that?" that I have with Japanese popular culture.

  William Gibson

  Chinese, Culture, China

  Source: craphound.com

• I worry about what we'll do in the future, [about the instantaneous co-opting of pop culture]. Where is our new stuff going to come from?

  William Gibson

  Worry, Stuff, Culture

  Source: craphound.com

• I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.

  William Gibson

  Culture, Becoming, Nostalgia

• What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

  William Gibson

  Rain, Forests, Culture

  Source: craphound.com

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