“In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by representatives of a benevolent collective; and then, in illusory harmony, they are reconciled with the general interest whose demands they had initially experienced as irreconcilable with their own.” HumansCultureInterestHuman BeingsTroubleProductsIndustryDemandHarmonyCollectivesRepresentativesBenevolentIllusory Author:Theodor Adorno
“Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.” ThinkingLittlesCountryStoriesMemoriesProductsLessonsEntrepreneurAdmireEnterpriseCollectivesValleysCapitalistOutsidersVentureGraveyardResumesSiliconSilicon ValleySuccess StoriesCollective MemoryVenture Capitalists Author:Michael Malone
“Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc. Government is typically cumbersome, plodding, and slow.” RealityGovernmentEconomyPlayerMinutesProductsCommunicateEtcCollectivesEfficientGatheringAvailabilityNimble Author:Joel Miller
“Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.” Has BeensEndsArtistProcessChurchPracticeProductsPhotographyPursuitContemporaryMediumsCollectivesBroadsEndeavorConceptionVehicleSolitaryPrompts Author:Charlotte Cotton