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...
brother space mad
Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.
men light people
Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.
identity environmental violence
Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.
technology long anxiety
When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.
media firsts degradation
New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.
mean tvs cameras
The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.
careful happened
I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.
innovation age obsession
In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.
done computer monopoly
Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.
inevitable contemplating willing
Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.
people tvs film
The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film.
art technology psychics
If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?
hero guy busy
Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.
speech patterns metaphor
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.