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.

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?

The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system.

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.