"Electric
technologies create an overall sensibility or 'feel' of the
input sense data that the brain uses to dynamically generate
the imagery of thought. Marshall and Eric McLuhan described
the effect of electric media as creating a ground that engenders
a sense of tactility that mediates all the senses."
"The
city of Amritsar has a history of catastrophes. It has suffered
the indignities of the Partition in which human beings were
butchered like chicken. It has seen the two wars with Pakistan.
And it has felt also the blood-soaked footprints of death that
rode on mobikes and carried Kalashnikovs, used the rhetoric
of religion, and received at last death and devastation in return."
"The
image of me is made up of thousands of tiny dots: liquid crystal
particles of information with one face. I can see only one face
because that is all there is. On the screen I am simple. Me,
I exist in all realities, with all choices made, all paths taken,
all at once, now."
"Perhaps
one of the more curious maladies related to this U.S. election
crisis is that a great deal of people who placed their votes
with gusto had as little political ideology as someone who voted
for any other reason--or not at all."
"I
don't care that he's married. I don't need to have sex with
him. I just want a friend who's a trader. And maybe just a kiss
so I know he really wants to be my friend. 'We can just be friends,'
I say. 'I need friends because I hate everyone on the floor.'"
