Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.
The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.
Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.
It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.
The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.
The most human thing about us is our technology.
In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.
I’ve always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.
The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.
New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.
When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.
Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It’s called being mass man.
All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You’re a nobody.
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.
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.
The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.
Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.
It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds.
Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.