Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.
The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.
Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode – a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
The user of the electric light – or a hammer, or a language, or a book – is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.
The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.
Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.
Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or ‘rational’ space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.
The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes.
Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.
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.
The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.
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.