If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire |
In Tetrad form, the artefact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground. |
In the name of progress, our official culture is striving to force the new media to do the work of the old. |
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 disc |
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. |
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. |
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic. |
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame. |
Jobs represent a relatively recent pattern of work. From the fifteenth century to the twentieth century, there is a steady progress of fragmentation of the stages of work that constitute "mechanization" and "specialism." . But under the conditions of |
Jokes are grievances. |
Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr |
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. |
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think. |
Money is just the poor man's credit card. |
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. |