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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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“The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.”

Thinking Feelings Action Process Imagination Generations Conscious Karma Unconscious Divorced

Book:Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology

Source: Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology

“A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.”

World Process Relation Institutions Structure Ideology Unconscious

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“Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.”

World Process Ideology Maps

Book:Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology

Source: Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology

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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