There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.
Computers can do better than ever what needn’t be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.
The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos – resonant utterance or word.
The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch.
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.
The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions.
I am not a “culture critic” because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.
Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.
Youth instinctively understand the present environment – the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.
The story begins only when the book closes.
It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it.
Even mud gives the illusion of depth.
North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.
When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.
There ain’t no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.
Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.
When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.
You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.
The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.