The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.
Technology is that which separates us from our environment.
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.
In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.
The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the “content” of the other, obscuring the operation of both.
We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message.
Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.
There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.
Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
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 artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.
What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.
Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.
It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.
Education is civil defence against media fallout.