Monday, December 13, 2004
"The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates – the inhabitants of marketing zones in the consumer goods society, television audiences, and news magazine readerships… vote with money at the cash counter rather than with the ballot paper at the polling booth."
- J. G. Ballard (b. 1930), British author: ‘The Consumer Consumer", first published in "Ink", June 1971, reprinted in Re/Search (San Francisco) No. 8/9, 1984.
"The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can’t make rapid, drastic changes in technology without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values."
- Theodore Kaczynski aka Unabomber (b. 1942), American radical: "Industrial Society and Its Future", ‘Sources of Social Problems’, Section 50, published in the "Washington Post", September 19, 1995.
"Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices… Politics has once again become religious."
- Michel de Certeau (1925 – 1986), French author and critic: ‘An Archeology: The Transits of Believing’, from "The Practice of Everyday Life", 1974.
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- J. G. Ballard (b. 1930), British author: ‘The Consumer Consumer", first published in "Ink", June 1971, reprinted in Re/Search (San Francisco) No. 8/9, 1984.
"The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can’t make rapid, drastic changes in technology without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values."
- Theodore Kaczynski aka Unabomber (b. 1942), American radical: "Industrial Society and Its Future", ‘Sources of Social Problems’, Section 50, published in the "Washington Post", September 19, 1995.
"Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices… Politics has once again become religious."
- Michel de Certeau (1925 – 1986), French author and critic: ‘An Archeology: The Transits of Believing’, from "The Practice of Everyday Life", 1974.
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