Mediated Quotes

#1. Atheism is humanism mediated by the suppression of religion, communism is humanism mediated by
the suppression of private property.

Albert Camus

#2. I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.

Soren Kierkegaard

#3. The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Theodor Adorno

#4. The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives ... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

Laura Miller

#5. I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate language with which to tell the story: This seems to me quintessentially human, one of the great adventures of our species.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults.

Sherry Turkle

#7. All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.

Dennis McKenna

#8. We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives

Audre Lorde

#9. The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism.

Guy Debord

#10. In our highly mediated, technologically driven world, we're all looking for meaningful ways to connect. This has constantly inspired me to create environments full of lively, immersive, experiential elements specifically crafted to foster human connection.

David Rockwell

#11. Marxism is a Western construction - a conceptualization of human affairs and historical development that is emergent from the historical experiences of European peoples mediated, in turn, through their civilization, their social orders, and their cultures.

Cedric J. Robinson

#12. If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

Evgeny Morozov

#13. Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

#14. Reward systems, such as those mediated by dopamine, also destabilize during adolescence in order to allow for the creation of new attachments, behaviors, and goals. This search for purpose and meaning makes adolescents more vulnerable to good and bad social influences,

Louis Cozolino

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Jumt Maik

#16. By championing hedonistic consumerism and encouraging individuals of all classes to believe that ownership of a particular object mediated the realities of class, mass media created a new image of the rich.

Bell Hooks

#17. The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

Guy Debord

#18. In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where there's some kind of relationship between the writer and the reader - even though it's mediated by a kind of text - there's an electricity about it.

David Foster Wallace

#19. There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

J.M. Coetzee

#20. Reticulocytes are terminally differentiating red blood cells that do not contain lysosome. Therefore, it was postulated that the degradation of hemoglobin in these cells is mediated by a non-lysosomal machinery.

Aaron Ciechanover

#21. The Concept of Internal and External Stressor is a Misnomer. All Stress is Created Finally Through an Internal Mechanism Mediated by Our Thoughts.

Kiran Dintyala

#22. Rather than focusing on coarse generational categories, it makes more sense to focus on the skills and knowledge that are necessary to make sense of a mediated world. Both youth and adults have a lot to learn.

Danah Boyd

#23. But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#24. Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

A. N. Wilson

#25. I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

Catherine Opie

#26. The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

Murray Bookchin

#27. It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound ... Everything is mediated through the mind.

Carl Jung

#28. High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.

Anthony Giddens

#29. From the outset, people's experiences of desire and rage, memory and power, community and revolt are inflected and mediated by the institutions through which they find their meaning - and which they, in turn, transform.

Anne McClintock

#30. The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated.

Stanley Hauerwas

#31. She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

Jane Austen

#32. Certainty' with respect to successful language learning and use--whether oral, written, or technologically mediated combinations--applies less and less to discrete products and more to adaptive processes.

Jay Jordan

#33. I like to connect with people through my work. That's my favorite way - meetings of the minds, fans at a show. Those are nice mediated ways of hanging out.

Carrie Brownstein

#34. A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path
[in Mediated Modeling page 43]

Donella H. Meadows

#35. A mystic is someone who aches for, continually searches for, direct contact with God; contact not mediated through the emotions or intellect, but a full melding of spirit and will, believing that this is not only possible but is the entire point of life in this world.

Doug Ferguson

#36. Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

Robert D. Putnam

#37. Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human beings, unconsciously reflect in their theories the social and political constraints of their times.

Stephen Jay Gould

#38. We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.

Jeanette Winterson

#39. Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data ... All of this will be mediated by software.

Satya Nadella

#40. The human quest for beauty is thus really a quest for the source of that beauty, which is mediated through the things of this world, not contained within them.

Alister E. McGrath

#41. It's not hard to figure out who has the power in any large gathering in our mediated culture: they are the ones with a microphone, their image projected larger than life above the crowd.

Andy Crouch

#42. Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.

Joyce Carol Oates

#43. We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#44. Basketball is not a collection of jams, but a social relation among players, mediated by Michael Jordan.

Guy Debord

#45. The relationship between citizens and government is increasingly mediated through the Internet.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#46. An alternative modernity worthy of the name would recover the mediating power of ethics and aesthetics. This would be accomplished not by a return to blind traditionalism but through the democratization of technically mediated institutions. Power

Andrew Feenberg

#47. And how much more do we need Korzybski's consciousness of abstracting at a time when so much of our lives are spent absorbed in the highly abstracted and mediated maps rendered by our digital technologies, new media, and online communications?

Alfred Korzybski

#48. With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

Geoff Mulgan

#49. Self-understanding is mediated Christologically.

Brian Gregor