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There are no connections in resonant space. There are only interfaces and metamorphoses. (p. 75)
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Bless Madison Ave for restoring the magical art of the cavemen to suburbia. (p. 130)
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Without an understanding of causality there can be no theory of communication. What passes as information theory today is not communication at all, but merely transportation. (p. 362)
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One touch of nature makes the whole world tin.
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You don't like those ideas? I got others!
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Money is a corporate image depending on society for its institutional status. (p. 133)
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The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.
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Any new technology is an evolutionary and biological mutation opening doors of perception and new spheres of action to mankind. (p. 67)
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All of the new media have enriched our perceptions of language and older media. They are to the man-made environment what species are to biology. (p. 84)
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A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. (p. 245)
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The Concept of Dread, by Soren Kierkegaard, appeared in 1844, first year of the commercial telegraph...It mentions the telegraph as a reason for dread and nowness or existenz.
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I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.
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The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
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All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.
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The automated presidential surrogate is the superlative nobody. (p. 157)
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All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.
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With Francis Bacon, Vico continuously asserts the claims of grammar as true science precisely because it has not yielded to specialism and method.
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Our book technology has Gutenberg at one end and the Ford assembly lines at the other. Both are obsolete. (p. 99)
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Cartoons drove the photo back to myth and dream screen.
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Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
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Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition. (p. 132)
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The newspaper is a corporate symbolist poem, environmental and invisible, as poem.
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Logic is figure without a ground. (p. 241)
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World War I a railway war of centralization and encirclement. World War II a radio war of decentralization concluded by the Bomb. World War III a TV guerrilla war with no divisions between civil and military fronts. (p. 152)
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