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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

“I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation.”

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Author:William Irwin Thompson

“If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source.”

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Book:At the Edge of History

Source: At the Edge of History

“In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.”

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Book:Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture

Source: Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture

“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.”

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Author:William Irwin Thompson

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

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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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