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William Irwin Thompson, born on July 16, 1938, is an American cultural critic and writer. His work primarily explores the relationship between technology, culture, and philosophy, offering profound insights into postmodernism and the future of the digital age.

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Famous William Irwin Thompson Quotes

“That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.”

Knowing Sea Myth Landscape Islands Unfathomable Shoreline

Book:The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture

Source: The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture

“The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.”

Belief Knowing

Book:At the Edge of History

Source: At the Edge of History

“With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.”

Way Years Universe Change Knowing Century Civilization Rate Emergence Rate Of Change

Book:Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition

Source: Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition

About the Author

Born: July 16, 1938
Known for: Critic
Quotes: 32

Books & Sources

Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New BiologyRelated source material

At the Edge of HistoryRelated source material

Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged EditionRelated source material

Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary CultureRelated source material

The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of CultureRelated source material

Transforming History: A Curriculum for Cultural EvolutionRelated source material

Darkness and Scattered Light: Four Talks on the FutureRelated source material

Evil and world orderRelated source material

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