Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
People hope that if they scream loudly enough about “values” then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.
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.
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.
When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.
The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.
The percept takes priority of the concept.
I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
Politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s problems.
The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer.
America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.
Today’s child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules.
Human perception is literally incarnation.