Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.
The real news is bad news.
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.
What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.
America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.
The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film.
It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.
The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.
In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.
There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.
Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.
We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.
[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.
The media have substituted themselves for the older world.
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.
Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.
The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.
The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.
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