Beau

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
― Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices

“Mass culture is enlightenment in reverse. Its goal is precisely to wipe out that last little garrison of human autonomy.”
― Rick Roderick, The Self Under Siege: Philosophy In The Twentieth Century

“It’s not utopian to demand that in a world with this kind of technology, that as a moral demand, a society feed, clothe and house its people. A society that doesn’t do it, with the kind of technology and the wealth we have is beneath contempt and makes a mockery of all the previous history of civilization.”
― Rick Roderick

“Años atrás ya lo había intuido, pero sólo ahora lo confirmo: cuando uno desea a una mujer, sólo conoce la mitad del propio deseo. El deseo completo sobreviene en el instante en que se tiene conciencia de que también la mujer lo desea a uno. Entonces sí la presión se vuelve insoportable.”
― Mario Benedetti, Gracias por el fuego