Charles Eisenstein (1967-now, activist)
"We live within a cultural mythology that tells us we are separate beings in competitive relation for power, even for survival. We long to return to a culture of inclusiveness, cooperation and the sharing of gifts." (The Longing for Belonging, 2015)
Jonathan Haidt (1963-now, psychologist)
"You can't make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can't change people's mind by utterly refuting their arguments." (The Righteous Mind, 2012)
Donna Haraway (1944-now, professor)
"From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power." (AZQuotes.com)
Robert P. Kolker (film historian)
"Every culture has a dominant ideology... but an ideology is never, everywhere monolithic. It is full of contradictions, perpetually shifting and modifying itself as struggles within the culture continue and as contradictions and conflicts develop." (A Cinema of Loneliness, 1980)
Susanne Langer (1895-1985, philosopher)
"The wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions." (AZQuotes.com)
Kalle Lasn (1942-now, filmmaker)
"I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future." (AZQuotes.com)
Stanisław Lem (1921-2006, writer)
"The 'well-informed' think they know something about matters that the experts are reluctant to even to speak of. Information at second hand always gives an impression of tidiness, in contrast with the data at the scientist's disposal, full of gaps and uncertainties." (His Master's Voice, 1968)
Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998, sociologist)
"Whatever we know about society or indeed about the world in which we live, we know through the mass media. This is true not only of our knowledge of society but also out knowledge of nature." (The Reality of the Mass Media, 2000)
Alan Moore (1953-now, writer)
"It wouldn't take much - one big scientific idea, or artistic idea, one good book, one good painting - who knows - we are at a critical point where the ideas are coming thicker and faster and stranger than they ever were before." (Interview with Matthew De Abaitua , 1998)
Jussi Parikka (1976-now, media theorist)
"...to be able to remember that media never dies, but remains as toxic waste residue, and also that we should be able to repurpose and reuse solutions in new ways, as circuit bending and hardware hacking practices imply." (The Anthrobscene, 2014)
Harold Pinter (1930-2008, playwright)
"But there real truth is that there never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other." (Art, Truth and Politics, 2005)
Howard Rheingold (1947-1968, writer)
"Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge." (AZQuotes.com)
