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...
space world village
Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening. ... The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
absence clear prose
Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
media law logos
The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.
media world vomiting
The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.
yesterday creative answers
Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.
identity resources knows
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.
quests information results
When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.
media understanding way
Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.
land people ego
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.
mind input body
Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.
morning people hot
People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.
innovation novelty annihilation
Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.
art pain war
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.
jesus distance messages
In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.