
“The message of radio is one of violent, unified implosion and resonance.”
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 263
Flow of Divine Guidance (vol.1)
“The message of radio is one of violent, unified implosion and resonance.”
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 263
Segment 144
Peoples Archive interview
Context: The thought that one unifying idea should continue forever is simply not realistic and therefore not to be hoped for, but I think that for quite a number of years still, perhaps if I am lucky to the end of my life, because I would hate to see that stop in my lifetime, those questions will become very active and still somewhat separate, as different branches of learning become accustomed to them. I cannot imagine that this idea would vanish, not because I am so proud of what I've been doing all my life, but because this is not an artificial thought coming from nowhere in no time and vanishing again rapidly in no time. It has in every one of its manifestations profound roots in the history of the various sciences and the various manners of human enterprise and those roots will not be broken. The continuity of these thoughts will continue, and if any substitute comes, if any other name comes, which is possible, the ideas will remain.
Classic, Romantic, Modern (1961), ch. I: "Romanticism — Dead or Alive?"
“Our Networks are not unified.”
Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 21, The system of Networks, p. 282
“The great gender unifier is your asshole.”
Interview in "Neon" http://blog.neon.de/2014/04/sex-pornografie-haben-schon-immer-technische-innovationen-gefordert/, 2014
“Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.”
1960s, Keep Moving From This Mountain (1965)
Context: Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I’m convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest good. He who loves has somehow discovered the meaning of ultimate reality. He who hates does not know God; he who hates has no knowledge of God. Love is the supreme unifying principle of life. Psychiatrists are telling us now that many of the strange things that happen in the [subconscious], many of the inner conflicts are rooted in hate, and they are now saying “Love or perish.” Oh, how basic this is. It rings down across the centuries: Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy strength, with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself. We’ve been in the mountain of violence and hatred too long.
Source: 1930s, "Protocol Statements" (1932), p. 91
Source: Postmodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), Chapter 1: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism