Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.
With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.
The story begins only when the book closes.
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.
The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.
The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.
If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.
All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.
I do not explain, I explore.
Our permanent address is tommorrow.
Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.
Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists.
Our technology forces us to live mythically
People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.
Jokes are grievances.
Any breakdown is a breakthrough.
Only the vanquished remember history.
For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Money is a poor man's credit card.
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.
During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted. The men insisted on having the ads back again. Naturally. The ads are by far the best part of any magazine or newspaper. More pains and thought, more wit and art go into the making of an ad than into any prose feature of press or magazine. Ads are news. What is wrong with them is that they are always good news.
It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it
The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.
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