“As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of legitimate social orders; b) to represent states and events, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of existing states of affairs; c) to manifest experiences that is, to represent oneself- whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the subjective world to which he has privileged access.” WorldStatesOrderSocialUnderstandingEventsSpeechRelationAffairOneselfAccessMediumsReachingManifestSpeakersPrivilegedSubjectiveSocial OrderInterpersonal Author:Jurgen Habermas
“The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.” MenPersonsImportantSeeingEventsPossibilityEternalHistoricalScreensAccessVisualsAllowingModernityImportant Events Book:Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future Source: Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future
“A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.” LittlesDoeRealityPastUniverseTechnologyEventsInformationPhotographyShadowGainsPhotographAccessSilverGrainSmallestSlidesDotsDazed Book:Underworld: A Novel Source: Underworld: A Novel
“New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies. They've done so in three ways: by dramatically boosting the access of individuals and special interests to politically potent information, by making it easier for such people to coordinate their activities and exert political power, and by greatly increasing the pace of events within our political systems.” PeopleWayDonePoliticalThreePoliticsIndividualInterestTechnologyDemocracyModernSpecialEventsInformationChangedInternetEasierActivityCompetitionIncludingPhonesAccessLandscapePaceEmailBlastPolitical SystemsPhone CallsInformation TechnologyPolitical PowerSpecial InterestsCoordinatesNew InformationThree WaysFax Author:Thomas Homer-Dixon
“Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us has become a storage room without a key. We are forced to suppress or forget so many events and ideas and thoughts that those to which we should have access are lost in the welter. However, there are people who seem capable of unlocking this part of their minds and extracting relevant information.” PeopleShouldMindIdeasSeemsLostForgetRoomsResultsEventsInformationKeysCivilizationCapableShould HaveMajorityAccessRelevantConventionsSubconsciousRestrictionStorageUnlocking Book:The weak-eyed bat Source: The weak-eyed bat
“Well, if you count my phone as an access point (which I do), I'm pretty much constantly online unless I'm at an event or practice or something.” IfsWellsPracticeEventsPhonesAccessOnline Author:Chris Kluwe
“In some subsequent episodes, certain individuals have certain knowledge of certain events that they wouldn't have, if they didn't have access to the future.” IfsCertainIndividualEventsAccessEpisodesCertain Knowledge Author:Andrew Kreisberg
“We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do.” LawCultureSpaceAwarenessEventsInformationPercentRaisesPopsAccessVideoFiftyPop Culture Author:Lizz Winstead