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“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

“It is not simply as release or play, in other words, that popular music saves society from its routine murders; it is not just relief from the long day's work or the joy that comes from cutting loose or the affirmation of community that makes it attractive, although all of these play their parts. In the Americas, popular music is a mission and strategy to recover the deep theoretical roots that extend far into the past and constitutes nothing less an alternative history of Western civilization.”
― Timothy Brennan, Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz

“Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines. ”
― Friedrich Kittler

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, Valis