The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message

All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.

It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it

Our technology forces us to live mythically

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