The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that partic...ular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters--there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That's why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in sus...pense or reserved.... This hypothesis ... would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world men inhabit ... is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shar...ed; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »