jphaenlin

[jphaenlin]

The communications revolution gives us each a more complex image of self. It differentiates us further. It speeds the very process by which we "try on" different images of self and, in fact, accelerates our movement through successive images. It makes it possible for us to project our image electronically to the world. And nobody fully understands what all this will do to our personalities. For in no previous civilization have we ever had such powerful tools. We increasingly own the technology of consciousness.

The Third Wave - A.Toffler (1980)

[jphaenlin]

Il faut éviter de penser à ces difficultés que présente le monde quelques fois. Sans ça il deviendrait tout à fait irrespirable.

Hiroshima mon amour - M Duras

[jphaenlin]

Comment pourrait-il y avoir une devise comme "La Liberté c'est l'Esclavage" alors que le concept même de la liberté aura été aboli ? Le climat total de la pensée sera autre. En fait, il n'y aura pas de pensée telle que nous la comprenons maintenant. Orthodoxie signifie non-pensant, qui n'a pas besoin de pensée. L'orthodoxie, c'est l'inconscience.

1984 - G.Orwell

[jphaenlin]

cette ville constamment détruite et reconstruite par ses habitants eux-même qui viennent d'arriver et repartiront dès qu'ils auront fait fortune qui ne savent pas son histoire mais connaissent son équipe de foot dont le stade écrase tout de son architecture pâtissière cette ville aux ruines millénaires négligées et aux gratte-ciels rabotés cette ville ne connaît que le présent

[jphaenlin]

Partout, on a assisté à un même recul précipité - à tel point que les rares organismes capables de résister à cette dégringolade présentent des anomalies indéniables ; je veux parler de quelques amphibies, des oiseaux et… de l'homme. Il est curieux de constater comment, tout en ayant soigneusement catalogué les reculs de tant de plantes et d'animaux, nous avons pu ignorer la créature la plus importante de notre planète.

Le monde englouti - J.G.Ballard

[jphaenlin]

The dema­gogic propagandist must therefore be consistently dogmatic. All his statements are made without qualification. There are no grays in his picture of the world; everything is either diabolically black or celestially white. In Hitler's words, the propagandist should adopt "a systematically one-sided attitude to­wards every problem that has to be dealt with." He must never admit that he might be wrong or that people with a different point of view might be even partially right. Opponents should not be argued with; they should be attacked, shouted down, or, if they be­come too much of a nuisance, liquidated. The morally squeamish intellectual may be shocked by this kind of thing. But the masses are always convinced that "right is on the side of the active aggressor."

Brave New World Revisited - A Huxley

[jphaenlin]

Someone to claim us, someone to follow Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo Someone to fool us, someone like you We want you Big Brother

Diamond Dogs - David Bowie

[jphaenlin]

There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.

1984 - George Orwell

[jphaenlin]

Si nous vivions dans les siècles de ténèbres affreuses qui enveloppèrent si longtemps l'Angleterre, l'un de nous deux ferait peut-être brûler l'autre. Nous sommes dans un siècle de raison ; nous trouvons aisément ce qui nous paraît la vérité, et nous osons la dire.

Les Oreilles du comte de Chesterfield - Voltaire

[jphaenlin]

Die Wunde! Die Wunde! Sie brennt mir hier zur Seite! O, Klage! Klage!

[jphaenlin]

A large neon sign over the entrance listed the latest discount — a mere five per cent — calculated on the volume of turnover. The highest discounts, sometimes up to twenty-five per cent, were earned in the housing estates where junior white-collar workers lived. There, spending had a strong social incentive, and the desire to be the highest spender in the neighborhood was given moral reinforcement by the system of listing all the names and their accumulating cash totals on a huge electric sign in the supermarket foyers. The higher the spender, the greater his contribution to the discounts enjoyed by others. The lowest spenders were regarded as social criminals, free-riding on the backs of others.

The Subliminal Man - J.G.Ballard