Supposing the Mechanical Phase to have lasted 300 years, from 1600 to 1900, the next or Electric Phase would have a life equal to ...(the square root of 300), or about seventeen years and a half, when--that is, in 1917Mit would pass into another or Ethereal Phase, which, for half a century, science has been promising, and which would last only (the square root of 17.5), or about four years, and bring Thought to the limit of its possibilities in the year 1921. It may well be!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: th...is is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wires ... to the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this--as in other ways--they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings... record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A partner evoked by sophisticated electric brain stimulation could be as real and much more satisfying than the boy or girl next d...oor.... All the stars in Hollywood living or dead are there for your pleasure. Sated with superstars, you can lay Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Isis, Madame Pompadour, or Aphrodite. You can get fucked by Pan, Jesus Christ, Apollo or the Devil himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment ...in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or o...ther favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »