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[kalibex]

All Art is, is less linear/more conceptual communication. Therefore, everyone is an artist - or should be.


Museums are just libraries for conceptual utterances that someone considered especially clever, or interesting. (And libraries are museums for linear utterances.)

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[antikythera.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, most people only know how to communicate in the ways in which they were taught in school, which means the most dry and technical form of linear written language. They are ill-equipped to express those ideas which can't be put into objective words.

"Brigadier, a straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting."

[kalibex.livejournal.com]

Even more importantly: 'The Medium is the Message'.

Quote by: Marshall McLuhan.

How we communicate dictates the very concepts we're able to hold.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

Is that what that means? I've never heard the phrase in context... Canadian academic types tend to throw it around whenever it seems to suit their purpose, not unline scripture.

[thedoctor-lj.livejournal.com]

Heh, heh...figures.

Well, McLuhan was majorly into paying attention to how technology affects people and society...and how not every medium of communication (story-telling vs. written/printed books vs radio vs televison vs computers...etc) seems to put forth the exact same kind of information... is an observation he's especially well known for...