"Formal cause, as logos, incorporates the patterns of side-effects as part of essential nature: tetrads restore poesis and the making process to the study of artefacts."

"Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual."

"Each tetrad gives the etymology of its subject, as an uttering or outering of the body physical or mental, and provides its anatomy in fourfold exegetical manner."

"With [Francis] Bacon, Vico continuously asserts the claims of grammar as true science precisely because it has not yielded to specialism and method."

"The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.'"

"The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts."

"Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression."

"All words, in every language, are metaphors."

"The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground."

"When Coleridge said that all men are born either Platonists or Aristotelians, he was saying that all men tend to be either acoustic or visual in their sensory bias."

"The field of 'information theory' began by using the old hardware paradigm of transportation of data from point to point."

"At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential."

"Older cliches are retrieved both as inherent principles that inform the new ground and new awareness, and as archetypal nostalgia figures with transformed meaning in relation to the new ground."

"The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions."

"Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch."

"In tetrad form, the artefact is seen to be not netural or passive, but an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground."

"The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation."

"Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons."

"It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds."

"Left hemisphere industrialism has blinded the Chinese to the effects of our alphabet: pattern recognition is in the right hemisphere."

"The culture-heroes of preliteracy and postliteracy alike are robots."

"The Chinese used the intervals between things as the primary means of getting 'in touch' with situations."

"The dyslexic: Everyman as cubist."

"The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures."

"Cultural dominance by either the left or the right hemisphere is largely dependent upon environmental factors."

"Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users."

"We are not Argus-eyed, but Argus-eared."

"Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode – a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground."

"There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures."

"Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space."

"While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious."

"Newton, and 'proper scientific method' after him, conducted attention to 'continuous description' of experimental phenomena instead of to causes."

"The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art."

"The artists of our culture, 'the antennae of the race,' had tuned in to the new ground and begun exploring discontinuity and simultaneity."

"Interdeterminacy was a figure-ground problem arising from incongruity between the visual bias of classical science and the new acoustic sensibilities."

"Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses."

"Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time."

"The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes."

"To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms."

"Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration."

"The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos – resonant utterance or word."

"The pre-atomist multisensory void was an animate, pulsating, and moving vibrant interval, neither container nor contained, acoustic space penetrated by tactility."

"Tactility is the space of the interval; acoustic space is spherical and resonant."

"Formal logic and the logical syllogism encapsulate connectedness in reasoning."

"Prolonged mimesis of the alphabet and its fragmenting properties produced a new dominant mode of perception and then of culture."

"By phonemic transformation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds."

"All words at every level of prose and poetry and all devices of language and speech derive their meaning from figure / ground relation."

"For me any of the little gestures I make are all tentative probes. That's why I feel free to make them sound as outrageous or extreme as possible. Until you make it extreme, the probe is not very efficient."

"I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world."

"The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community."