John Black

“Here’s the problem: Many of the systems we’ve developed to help guide our lives–systems like news, education, law, advertising, and so on–arose in, and still assume, an environment of information scarcity. We’re only just beginning to explore what these systems should do for us, and how they need to change, in this new milieu of information abundance.”
― James Williams, Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy

“the fundamental point that what we think of as “side effects” are misnamed. In a system there are no side effects—just effects, anticipated or not.”
― Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

“Undecidables disrupt this oppositional logic. They slip across both sides of an opposition but don’t properly fit either. They are more than the opposition can allow. And because of that, they question the very principle of “opposition”.”
― Jeff Collins, Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide

“To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery,” wrote Rousseau in The Social Contract, “while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom”
― James Williams, Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy