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"Full moonlight on blue snow Loudspeaker blasting midnite static thru some European Swansong, Dit dat dits of outerspace communication blanking out Ear´s substance Vatican whistles undertone bloops and eeeeeps, trillion-antennae´d grid of the Shabda If it´s silent it isn´t there -" - Allen Ginsberg, "Fall of America" "Compared to other forms of human communication, television is highly and artificially focused. Through its monocular lens, we see the world in small, isolated fragments, with little depth, background, or conceptual framework; but we see it with a beguiling clarity, and in most cases it is only thanks to that lens that we see it at all." - Jeffrey Scheuer, "The Sound Bite Society" "If we understand reason as being disembodied, then our bodies are only incidental to what we are. If we understand reason as mechanical-the sort of thing a computer can do-then we devalue human intelligence as computers get more efficient. If we understand rationality as the capacity to mirror the world external to human beings, then we devalue those aspects of the mind that can do infinitely more than that. If we understand reason as merely literal, we will devalue art." - George Lakoff, "Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things" "The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them." - Michel Foucault, "The Chomsky-Foucault Debate" "I am not a professional historian; nobody is perfect." - Michel Foucault, University of Vermont, 27. October 1982