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...
education growing-up children
Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.
media world
The media have substituted themselves for the older world.
thinking technology force
Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.
reading age middle
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.
psychics action social
Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.
identity quests violence
All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.
culture logic photograph
...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.
generations situation behinds
The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.
space greek utterance
The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.
space doe photograph
Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.
logos causes responsible
Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.
technology humans
The most human thing about us is our technology.
space acoustics form
Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.
culture individualism eastern
There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.