“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”
— Marshall McLuhan, “Culture Is Our Business”, 1970, p. 66
“Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash…
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
— Antonio Gramsci, English translation Selections from the Prison Notebooks, “Wave of…
“You don’t build a movement, the movement builds you.”
— Charles Eisenstein
“The future is here… It’s just not evenly distributed.
— William Gibson
“The whole of a technology and all of its parts develop simultaneously in parallel…. All this activity is going on at many points in the network at the same time. Like the buildout of species in the biosphere, it is a parallel process, and there is nothing orderly about it…. A novel…
“The multitude, however, although it remains multiple, is not fragmented, anarchical, or incoherent.”
— Hardt and Negri, Multitude, p. 99.