Quotes of: Public-discourse Keyword

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

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

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

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions

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

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

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

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

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

Los estadounidenses ya no hablan entre sí, sino que se entretienen recíprocamente. No intercambian ideas, sino imágenes.

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

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

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration

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

We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.

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

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

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

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

The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired and how the world was to be understood. "Knowing" the facts took on a new meaning, for it did not i...

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

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we comp...

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

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

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

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.

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

The modern idea of testing a reader's "comprehension," as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an absurdity in 1790 or 1830 or 1860. What else was reading but comprehending?

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

For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not important that those who ask the questions arrive at my answers or Marshall McLuhan's (quite different answers, by the way). This is an instance in which t...

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