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...
stress mean technology
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.
arrogant would-be things-to-do
I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
technology computer internet
The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.
gossip taverns bumps
Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.
patterns information recognition
When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.
single-mom peculiar moments
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.
television vanishing screens
In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.
perception incarnation humans
Human perception is literally incarnation.
artist perception trends
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.
unique creating media
Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.
creative world connections
The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.
technology media body
The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.
absence clear prose
Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
village situation interfaces
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.