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...
art technology space
The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.
new-inventions environment invention
We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.
space victory fields
The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes.
space challenges flow
Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.
technology produce bias
Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.
order use language
The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.
creative mind typical
It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.
expression play perception
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.
messages bombs atomic-bomb
The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.
roots phenomenology ears
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
photography lying museums
[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.
loss men people
[On Jimmy Carter] "Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he puts nostalgia in its place.
art action painting
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.
photography people mass
Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.