When you’re in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That’s the consolation of philosophy.
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
On to some juicy French philosophical sex-killing murder-suicide cannibal thing. You?”“Still the controversial Hungarian breast-cancer radioactive seed implant treatment thing. I adore y
The only authentic literature of the modern era is the owner’s manual.
But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none.
We can’t worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manufacture it through religion, philosophy, nationhood, politics, and some people buy it. But an artist is not a manufacturer.
Send these images of me through the internet out into the universe, where I will continue my out-of-body existence.
Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it’s inevitable that it should come home to roost.
We’re all photojournalists now. It’s no longer enough just to write.
He wouldn’t perform without a recording now, she was certain, like a poet working in the oral tradition who had been contaminated by the advent of the recording device and so insisted that all improvisations be saved for posterity.
To not be photographed daily, even by oneself, to not be recorded and videoed and dispersed into the turbulent winds of the net, was to court nonexistence.
The internet is now a forum for public prosecution.
Everything changed after AIDS,” Dr. Molnár had just explained to him. “From then on, blood was more dangerous than shit.
I don’t think there’s anything man wasn’t meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn’t do.
It had occurred to her that the ultimate expression of Tom Wolfe’s ‘saturation reporting’ was possibly at hand: the copycat murder of the journalist, with the murderer finishing the piece and filing it, complete with photographs and videos.
To me it’s very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.
The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It’s not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.
I see technology as being an extension of the human body.