World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
Just as in the physical world, people within virtual worlds perform and cycle through different roles and identities. Virtual worlds make such shifts explicit, as well as introducing spaces for play and performance.
Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and...
Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all o...
All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platonic forms. An ice palace. But they also live in the common world where things are transient, ambiguous, subject to vicissitudes. Mathematicians go backw...
Marwood: Give me a Valium, I'm getting the FEAR! Danny: [very calmly] You have done something to your brain. You have made it high. If I lay 10 mls of diazepam on you, it will do something else to your brain. You will make it low. Why trust one drug ...
Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.
At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.
The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.
Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches...
It's all rather political, mourning is.
Politics is the art of doing nothing and ruining everything.
Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.
Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.
