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Virtualization: Electronic reproduction/Static productions
"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be."- Marshall McLuhan
"We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in 'the social,' our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures."- Jean Baudrillard
"Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. "- Octavio Paz
"Technology . . . the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."- Max Frisch
"Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major- perhaps the major- stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor."- Jean François Lyotard
"Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions."- C. Wright Mills
"Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion."- Jean Baudrillard
"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."- Timothy Leary
"Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and 'retro' clothes in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter for TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works."- Jean François Lyotard
"Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay."- Arthur Kroker
"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."- Jean Baudrillard
"There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence."-Theodor W. Adorno
"Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century."- Marshall McLuhan
"The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these."- Jean Baudrillard
"I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again…the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul."- J. G. Ballard
"Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain."- Friedrich Nietzsche
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