Will Marshall
Will Marshall
Will Marshall is one of the founders of the New Democrat movement, which aims to steer the US Democratic Party toward a more conservative orientation. Since its founding in 1989, he has been president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council...
technology produce bias
Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.
order use language
The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.
creative mind typical
It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.
exercise order pills
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.
expression play perception
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.
messages bombs atomic-bomb
The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.
roots phenomenology ears
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
photography lying museums
[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.
loss men people
[On Jimmy Carter] "Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he puts nostalgia in its place.
art action painting
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.
photography people mass
Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.
plato writing media
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.
book hands mind
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.
artist perception training
The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.