Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.
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The car has become an item of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools.
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The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
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Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
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'Money talks' because money is a metaphor, a transfer, and a bridge. Like words and language, money is a storehouse of communally achieved wor...
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Acoustic space has the basic character of a sphere whose focus or centre is simultaneously everywhere and whose margin is nowhere...
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Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up—that is our new ...
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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image wi...
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The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
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The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.
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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
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The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
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A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.
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New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual o
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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
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The real news is bad news.
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There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
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The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.
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Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
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ONLY THE SMALL SECRETS NEED TO BE PROTECTED.THE BIG ONES ARE KEPT SECRET BY PUBLIC INCREDULITY.
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The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium -- that is, of any extension of ourselves -- result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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The medium is the message.
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Money is a poor man's credit card.
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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.
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