.......................☝ ↑ ↑ ⇧ ☝ ↑ ↑ ↑☝ ↑ ↑
See link for SUGGESTED READINGS and MUCH MORE.

Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Grand Valley State University

Fellow of the International Communicology Institute

Trustee, Board of Directors, for the Media Ecology Association

Trustee, Board of Directors, for the Institute of General Semantics

QUOTATIONS FOR RUMINATION:

Marshall McLuhan: To say that a technology or extension of man creates a new environment is a much better way of saying that the medium is the message. This environment is always 'invisible' and its content is always the old technology.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The wonderful thing about language is that it promotes its own oblivion; my eyes follow the lines on the paper, and from the moment I am caught up in their meaning, I lose sight of them.

T. S. Eliot: Our only way of showing that we are attending to an object is to show that it and ourselves are independent entities, and to do this we must have names...We have no objects without language.

Susanne K. Langer: Without words our imagination cannot retain distinct objects and their relations, but out of sight is out of mind.

William Gass: To an almost measureless degree, to know is to possess words, and all of us who live out in the world as well as within our own are aware that we inhabit a forest of symbols...Every photograph requires a thousand words.

Martin Heidegger: Speaking is of itself a listening. Speaking is listening to the language we speak. Thus, it is a listening not while but before we are speaking...We do not merely speak the language--we speak by way of it. We can do so solely because we always have already listened to the language. What do we hear? We hear language speaking.

Lee Thayer: The proper study of communication begins and ends in what people imagine they are for, not in what they imagine communication is for.

Alan Watts: The notion of a separate thinker, of an I distinct from the experience, comes from memory and from the rapidity with which thought changes. There is not something or someone experiencing experience! You do not feel your feelings, think your thoughts, or sense your sensations any more than you hear hearing, see sight, or smell smelling.