We Impose The Form Of The Old

Persons Grouped Around A Fire Or Candle For Warmth Or Light Are Less Able To Pursue Independent Thoughts, Or Even Tasks, Than People Supplied With Electric Light. In The Same Way, The Social And Educational Patterns Latent In Automation Are Those Of Self-employment And Artistic Autonomy.

[cameras] Tend To Turn People Into Things And The Photograph Extends And Multiplies The Human Image To The Proportions Of Mass-produced Merchandise And, [in The Age Of Photography] The World Itself Becomes A Sort Of Museum Of Objects That Have Been Encountered Before In Some Other Museum And To Say That The Camera Cannot Lie Is Merely To Underline The Multiple Deceits That Are Now Practiced In Its Name.

The Real News Is Bad News.

With The Arrival Of Electric Technology, Man Extended, Or Set Outside Himself, A Live Model Of The Central Nervous System Itself. To The Degree That This Is So, It Is A Development That Suggests A Desperate And Suicidal Autoamputation, As If The Central Nervous System Could No Longer Depend On The Physical Organs To Be Protective Buffers Against The Slings And Arrows Of Outrageous Mechanism.

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