August 2012
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“If you value information the most, then you don’t care about convention. It’s...”
– Rudy Rucker, “What Is Cyberpunk?” (1986)
June 2011
6 posts
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“Listen to the technology, Carver Mead says. What do the curves say? Imagine it...”
– KEVIN KELLY (What Technology Wants)
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“The franchise and the virus work on the same principle: what thrives in one...”
– NEAL STEPHENSON (Snow Crash, 178)
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“The logical extension of business is murder.”
– DON DeLILLO (via character Kendra Hays, in Cosmopolis)
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“A culture is not just a by-product of economic proficiency.”
– PAOLO SOLERI (Arcosanti: An Urban Laboratory)
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“Man’s will to profit and be powerful have their natural and proper effect...”
– MARTIN BUBER (I and Thou, p. 48)
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“Controllers of word and music monopolized and froze the earth”
– WILLIAM BURROUGHS, The Ticket That Exploded (p. 176)
March 2011
5 posts
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“The main problem with searching for extraterrestrials is to recognize them. Time...”
– TERENCE McKENNA
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“I already know a thing or two. I know it’s not clothes that make women...”
– MARGUERITE DURAS (The Lover, p. 18)
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“I’ve never met a person who I couldn’t call a beauty. Each person...”
– ANDY WARHOL
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“I’ve been quoted a lot as saying ‘I like boring things.’ ...”
– ANDY WARHOL (as quoted in Chronophobia : on time in the art of the 1960’s)
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“You realize how important sexuality is to the human race, in terms of art,...”
– DAVID CRONENBERG
February 2011
14 posts
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“Progress is a noxious, culturally embedded, untestable, nonoperational,...”
– STEPHEN J. GOULD
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“The city has twice been humiliated by the suburbs: once upon the loss of its...”
– JOHN McMORROUGH (Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping)
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“I have come to the conclusion that curiously I don’t think film is a very...”
– PETER GREENAWAY
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“He had this annoying tic during his time with us of pinning aphorisms to the...”
– JOSHUA FERRIS (Then We Came to the End, p. 341)
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“During that brief moment, the empty hallway felt possessed of a haunted...”
– JOSHUA FERRIS (Then We Came to the End, p. 300)
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“A comma by helping you along holding your coat for you and putting on your shoes...”
– GERTRUDE STEIN (Narration, p. v)
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“People suffering nervous breakdowns often do a lot of research, to find...”
– PHILIP K DICK (Valis)
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“[B]ecause [data] is electronic, once it is produced it is subject to a life...”
– SANFORD KWINTER + DANIELA FABRICUS (Mutations)
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“What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us that we were, despite...”
– ZADIE SMITH (White Teeth)
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“[T]he occultism of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries has proved...”
– DEVIN JOHNSTON (Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice)
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“Beauty, when it is not a promise of happiness, must be destroyed.”
– LETTRIST INTERNATIONAL (Situationist City, p. 73)
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“[W]hen a sentence of destruction against the idols of Alexandria was pronounced,...”
– EDWARD GIBBONS (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)
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“We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it...”
– RAINER MARIA RILKE 