Mediated Quotes
31 quotes by 27 authors
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The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.
— Theodor Adorno
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If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and the gospel into…
— Robert D. Brinsmead
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through…
— J M Coetzee
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I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity.…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.
— Robert D. Putnam
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Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for…
— Nayef Al-Rodhan
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Please be careful of becoming so immersed and engrossed in pixels, texting, ear buds, Twittering, online social networking, and potentially addictive uses of media and…
— David A. Bednar
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The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.
— Murray Bookchin
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All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are…
— Dennis McKenna
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Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We…
— Carl Jung
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Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so cinema became sort…
— Jason Silva
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In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where there’s…
— David Foster Wallace
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It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound . . . Everything is mediated through the mind.
— Carl Jung
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In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has…
— Guy Debord
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
— A. N. Wilson
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I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as…
— Anthony Giddens
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The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most…
— Laura Miller
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Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not…
— Geoff Mulgan
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