Quotes of: Discourse Keyword

Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.

Nate Lowman

Engulfment is a moment of hypnosis.

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

We may say then that the contribution of the telegraph to public discourse was to dignify irrelevance and amplify impotence. But this was not all: Telegraphy also made public discourse essentially incoherent. It brought into being a world of broken t...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

Bob Etheridge

There can be no religious discourse which is in conflict with its environment and with the world and therefore, we Muslims need to modify this religious discourse. And this has nothing to do with conviction and with religious beliefs, because those a...

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying you will make a man that will liv...

The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Roland Barthes

What remains of people is what media can store and communicate.

Discourse Networks, 1800/1900

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Kenneth L. Pike

To this motive which encourages me is added another which made up my mind: after I have upheld, according to my natural intelligence, the side of truth, no matter what success I have, there is a prize which I cannot fail to win. I will find it in the...

Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics

Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of discourse in it's boldest and most embarrassing form. For there, we are presented not only with fragmented news but news without context, without con...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

Jim Lehrer

Theological discourses function in various ways as sites of contestation and resistance, of forming new religious and personal identities, and of building solidarities. Theological discourses that theologians produce, disseminate, and teach in academ...

Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and rules of contradiction. In aesthetics, I believe ...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate with mature discourse were amplified by typography, which has the strongest possible bias toward exposition: a sophistica...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Many Islamic clerks are spreading the discourse of violence and the spirit of hatred; then they object on the actions of ISIS! They are producing ISIS generation by another, throughout their discourse and curricula.

Dismantling ISIS

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson