Sublime

A noção ingênua de informação se opõe à regulação e crê que um mercado de informação livre por completo gerará a verdade e a ordem de maneira espontânea. É uma noção totalmente divorciada da história concreta da democracia. Nunca foi fácil preservar a conversa democrática, e todos os locais onde essa conversa ocorreu antes — de parlamentos e câmara

his guardians, who were extremely old-fashioned people and did not realize that we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities;

Lo que dijo Edward L. Bernays en aquella memorable sesión del Directorio de la United Fruit en Boston se cumplió al pie de la letra, confirmando, dicho sea de paso, la tesis expuesta por aquél de que el siglo XX sería el del advenimiento de la publicidad como la herramienta primordial del poder y de la manipulación de la opinión pública en las soci

Italo Calvino: ‘A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.’

This vocabulary, a sign of the “specialist” and, of course, the elitist, thwarts universal understanding. It keeps the uninitiated from asking unpleasant questions. It destroys the search for the common good. It dices disciplines, faculty, students, and finally experts into tiny, specialized fragments. It allows students and faculty to retreat into

Les écrits et les images jaillissaient dans un flux constant en proportion presque égale à celui de la réalité, de sorte que la fonction élective des livres et des films s’éteignait, plus aucune œuvre ne se détachait, tout rejoignait une bibliothèque incommensurable et chaotique. L’écrit, pour la première fois dans l’histoire de l’humanité, s’abais

There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first, the Orwellian culture becomes a prison. In the second, the Huxleyan culture becomes a burlesque.

What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countena