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 psychics play
It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds.
dream photography stars
The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.
war identity weapons
Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.
men tasks figures
The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.
plot literature conscious
While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.
brother space mad
Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.
men light people
Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.
identity environmental violence
Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.
technology long anxiety
When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.
media firsts degradation
New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.
mean tvs cameras
The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.
careful happened
I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.
innovation age obsession
In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.
done computer monopoly
Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.