The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.

At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.

I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I’m resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons.

With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.

Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.