Tuesday 30 September 2014

McLuhanism



"It has been assumed till now that so long as everybody is hypnotised by the same isolated sense or spell, the resulting homogeneity of mental states will suffice for human association."


...which then led on to...




Sunday 28 September 2014

I dream that I have found us both again,
With spring so many strangers' lives away,
And we, so free,
Out walking by the sea,
With someone else's paper words to say...

They took us at the gates of green return,
Too lost by then to stop, and ask them why-
Do children meet again?
Does any trace remain,
Along the super highways of July?

- Roger Mexico (in Gravity's Rainbow)

Sunday 14 September 2014

The universe is intelligent in so far as we are intelligent. The universe is infinite response.

-Maurice Nicoll

“All doubt means is that 'I'm shopping, thank you.'” - TM

"I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt."- Marshall McLuhan