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...
environmental attention fields
The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.
media community culture
The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.
world way culture
I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.
responsibility differences people
It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment . This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.
hemisphere alphabet culture
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.
years fellows hostile
Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.
fall world nostalgia
The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions.
acoustics awareness ancient
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.
light speed speed-of-light
Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.
photography commit
Nobody can commit photography alone.
views independence rear-view
Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.
technology years age
My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
writing exploration absence
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
teacher men conversation
Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.