“Atomistic, linear, and compartmentalized thought was the natural outcome of print, the symptom, as it were, of literate sensibilities.”Tagged: Print Culture, Print Media, Print Sensibilities
“Media ecology, more than any other tradition, provides a more robust manifestation of what so many social constructionist scholars had been seeking. We might call it, socio-historical constructionism with teeth. Clearly, it is one thing to sweepingly proclaim that people socially construct 'reality'…”Tagged: Technology and Social Constructionism, The Grounds of Biology, Our Technology Alters Us, Making Visible The Invisible, The Shapers of Culture
“Produce abundant scholarly fruits by which you and others can be nourished and strengthened, or at the least, produce something which, in falling to the ground largely unnoticed, feeds the soil. Compost is better than barren ground.”Tagged: Second-Hand Influence, Popularity vs. Importance, Impact vs. Influence, Being A Cultural Creator In A Wasteland, Science as a Vocation
“Others are environments. Nothing conveys how something is possible like watching someone do it before your very eyes. Be the other for others. Be part of the environment that helps others see what is possible.”Tagged: In Doing Is Teaching, Role Models, Setting A Good Example, Performance As Ethical Responsibility
“What are the words we speak if not an afterlife of the now deceased?”Tagged: The Ghosts of Language, What Is Speaking When We Are Speaking, Where The Words Come From, Ancestry, Language’s Underriver
“When you and another are in conversation, invisible others, ancient spirits are mediating your minds.”Tagged: History, Dead Languages, Ghosts Inside The Linguistic Machine, Who Comes When We Talk, What Is Conversation?
“The sea of history is where we all find ourselves, and language is an ancient invisible ship, a vessel by which we travel over all that we encounter.”Tagged: History, Dead Languages, Ghosts Inside The Linguistic Machine, Who Comes When We Talk, Metaphors
“Only as people are spoken about and thought about in their absence do their robust environmental characteristics show themselves.”Tagged: The Mark We Leave, Ghostly Impressions, Impact in Absence
“Parents and grandparents are veritable mountains that infants climb.”Tagged: Parenting, Child Rearing, Parental Figures as Educational Vessels, The Generations of History
“Language is the mother of all things.”Tagged: Language, The Source of the World, The Root of Innovation
“Your mind is not in your head. It is between you and other people.”Tagged: Relationalism, Social Dynamics of Knowledge, Epistemology, Quote of the Moment, Communication as Connection
“People who want the world to be a better place need to accept the painful truth that ‘Truth’ can be quite irrelevant if people do not act upon it.”Tagged: making the world better, improving the world, Leadership, Politics, Truth Is Not Everything
“People who want the world to be a better place need vision, purpose, and a relentless capacity to ask tough questions.”Tagged: making the world better, improving the world, Leadership