“ The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. ”
With the arrival of electric technology, man has 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 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.
~ Marshall Mcluhan
Art is whatever you can get away with.
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!