“A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.”
― Thought and Language
― Thought and Language
“In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.”
― Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture
― Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture
“Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.”
― Transmitting Culture
― Transmitting Culture
“Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize 'ideologies,' desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology.”
― Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms
― Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms
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