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...
identity quests violence
All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.
culture logic photograph
...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.
generations situation behinds
The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.
space greek utterance
The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.
space doe photograph
Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.
logos causes responsible
Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.
technology humans
The most human thing about us is our technology.
space acoustics form
Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.
culture individualism eastern
There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.
technology psychics play
It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds.
dream photography stars
The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.
war identity weapons
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.
men tasks figures
The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.
plot literature conscious
While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.