21 quotes
One touch of nature makes the whole world tin.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
The newspaper is a corporate symbolist poem, environmental and invisible, as poem.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
As the totem pole is tied to the lineality of the missionaries' Bible, so the igloo was made possible by the primus stove.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
The telegraph press mosaic is acoustic space as much as an electric circus.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
The Eskimo, like any pre-literate, leaps easily from the Paleolithic stone age to the electric age, by-passing the Neolithic specialism.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
The young are really the heirs to a generation of incompetence.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Cartoons drove the photo back to myth and dream screen.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Color is not so much a visual as a tactile medium.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Since Sputnik there is no Nature. Nature is an item contained in a man-made environment of satellites and information.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Since Sputnik, the earth has been wrapped in a dome-like blanket or bubble. Nature ended.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Acoustic space is totally discontinuous, like touch. It is a sphere without centers or margins.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
The existential trauma had a physical basis in the first electric extension of our nervous system.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Audile-tactile space is the space of involvement. We lose "touch" without it. Visual space is the space of detachment.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Tactility is space of the interval.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture. (p. 168)
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Privacy invasion is now one of biggest knowledge industries. (p. 24)
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
The only cool PR is provided by one's enemies. They toil incessantly and for free. (88)
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
When the evolutionary process shifts from biology to software technology the body becomes the old hardware environment. The human body is now a probe, a laboratory for experiments. (p. 180)
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
The Concept of Dread, by Soren Kierkegaard, appeared in 1844, first year of the commercial telegraph...It mentions the telegraph as a reason for dread and nowness or existenz.
Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Visual space is the space of detachment. Audile-tactile space is the space of involvement. (p. 194)
Culture Is Our Business (1970)