Only The Vanquished Remember History.

It Is One Of The Peculiar Characteristics Of The Photograph That It Isolates Single Moments In Time.

All Media Work Us Over Completely. They Are So Pervasive In Their Personal, Political, Economic, Aesthetic, Psychological, Moral, Ethical, And Social Consequences That They Leave No Part Of Us Untouched, Unaffected, Unaltered. The Medium Is The Message. Any Understanding Of Social And Cultural Change Is Impossible Without A Knowledge Of The Way Media Work As Environments. All Media Are Extensions Of Some Human Faculty - Psychic Or Physical.

All Words, In Every Language, Are Metaphors.

The Hallucinogenic World, In Environmental Terms, Can Be Considered As A Forlorn Effort Of Man To Match The Speed Of Power Of Hisextended Nervous System (which We Call The "electronic World") By Intensifying The Activity Of His Inner Nervous System.

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.