“Popular discrimination is thus quite different from the aesthetic discrimination valued so highly by the bourgeoisie and institutionalized so effectively in the critical industry. “Quality” —a word beloved of the bourgeoisie because it universalizes the class specificity of its own art forms and cul…”— John Fiske, amazon.com
“Written words are residue. Oral tradition has no such residue or deposit… Though words are grounded in oral speech, writing tyrannically locks them into a visual field forever. A literate person, asked to think of the word 'nevertheless', will normally (and I strongly suspect always) have some image…”— Walter Ong, amazon.com
“The main thing I've been trying to communicate, whether it's in terms of spirituality, in terms of media, in terms of marketing and communications, or even in terms of politics and economics, is that there's one thing going on here: people are desperately afraid to accept the fact that we are moving…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com
“Unplanned, unanticipated encounters are central to democracy itself. Such encounters often involve topics and points of view that people have not sought out and perhaps find quite irritating. They are important partly to ensure against fragmentation and extremism, which are predictable outcomes of a…”— Cass R. Sunstein, amazon.com