Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles. . . Contemporary or postmodernist art. . . will involve the necessary failure of art and the aesthetic, the failure of the new, the imprisonment in the past.
The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.
In America, we will have secure borders, but we'll also have reform.
Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.