Doris Lessing
- Shikasta (1979)
She stands as she has done for millennia, cutting bread, setting out sliced vegetables on a plate, with a bottle of wine, and thinks that nothing in this meal is safe, that the poisons of their civilization are in every mouthful, and that they are about to fill their mouths with deaths of all kinds. In an instinctive gesture of safety, renewal, she hands a piece of bread to her child, but the gesture has lost its faith as she makes it, because of what she may be handing the child.
Steven Berlin Johnson
- Interface Culture (1997)
The explosion of media types in the twentieth century makes it possible for the first time to grasp the relationship of form to content, medium to message, engineering to artistry. A world governed exclusively by one medium is a world governed by itself. You can't measure a medium's influence without something to compare it with.
James C. Scott
- Seeing Like a State (1998)
A market necessarily reduces quality to quantity via the price mechanism and promotes standardization; in markets, money talks, not people. Today, global capitalism is perhaps the most powerful force for homogenization, whereas the state may in some instances be the defender of local difference and variety.
