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...
technology patterns action
The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.
past problem easy
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
environmental development patterns
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.
men bridges media
The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.
space world village
Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening. ... The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
absence clear prose
Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
media law logos
The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.
media world vomiting
The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.
yesterday creative answers
Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.
identity resources knows
You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.
quests information results
When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.
media understanding way
Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.
land people ego
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.
mind input body
Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.