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I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am content, and have a feeling of trust and safety. The Machiavellian mind and the merchant mind are at one in their simple faith in the power of segmental division to rule all--in the dichotomy of power and morals and of money and morals.
Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.
Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber.
The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.
A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.
Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.
The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis.
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...
The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.
...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.
The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.
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