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4,096 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“The perfect criminal is the one who lays claim to the crime he has not committed. Who conceals his innocence behind the mask of crime. He is much harder to unmask. ”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories IV: 1995 - 2000
Tagged: Crime, Masks
“As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveller is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats. ”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
Tagged: Corporate Living, Freedom
“It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done it yourself. You feel no intellectual jealously at seeing yourself outstripped in this way. ”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
Tagged: Quotes
“The corporate book industry can’t grow at the rate required by publicly held companies, anyway. This is why it is failing. Publishing is a sustainable business, not a growth industry. So it needs to be run by people looking for sustainable projects and careers—not runaway profits.”
— Douglas Rushkoff,
Tagged: Book Publishing
“For models come and go. Not that the old ones turn out necessarily to be untrue. They may remain entirely true while they become quite unfruitful. Models provide analogies which are of their very nature limited, and, as this dialogue which makes human society what it is moves on, the models once found serviceable because relevant in a special to current preoccupations are abandoned for others more relevant to new problems, new insights, and new solutions.”
— Walter Ong, American Catholic Crossroads
Tagged: Truth as Movement, Never Ending Story, The Evolution of Knowledge
“Like generals in the safety of a situation room using toy tanks on a miniature battlefield to re-create a noisy and violent war, government and corporate leaders strategized in isolation from the cacophony of feedback. They sought to engage with their challenges from far above and to make moves as if the action were occurring on a game board. Complexity was reduced to simple, strategic play.”
— Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Tagged: Complexity, Detachment
“In a networked ideascape, the ownership of an idea becomes as quaint and indefensible a notion as copyright or patents. Since ideas are built on the logic of others, there is no way to trace their independent origins. It’s all just access to the shared consciousness. Everything is everything. Acceptance of this premise feels communist or utopian; resistance feels like paranoia.”
— Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Tagged: Consciousness, Copyright
“How many generations before our own asked people to earn and save enough money while young in order to accumulate a nest egg big enough to live off for the last third of one’s life? It’s a bit like asking an animal to get fat enough not to have to eat again for the rest of its natural life. ”
— Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
“'Humanism,' a term first coined in 1808 to identify this Renaissance trend, refers not to some sort of humanitarian impulse, but to the solipsism and self-absorption characterizing the era’s religion, art, and science.”
— Douglas Rushkoff, Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
Tagged: Capitalism, Humanism
“Innis sacrificed point of view and prestige to his sense of the urgent need for insight. A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. As Innis got more insight he abandoned any mere point of view in his presentation of knowledge. When he interrelates the development of the steam press with ‘the consolidation of the vernaculars’ and the rise of nationalism and revolution he is not reporting anybody’s point of view, least of all his own. He is setting up a mosaic configuration or galaxy for insight … Innis makes no effort to “spell out” the interrelations between the components in his galaxy. He offers no consumer packages in his later work, but only do-it-yourself kits.”
— Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
Tagged: Perspectivism, Point of View