“Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.” NaturalViolenceIdentityInnovationDisappearQuestsTechnologicalRecourse Author:Marshall McLuhan
“The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive.” ViolenceGenerationsIdentityTvsCorporateExecutives Author:Marshall McLuhan
“All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.” FormViolenceIdentityQuestsFrontiers Author:Marshall McLuhan
“Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.” Has BeensViolenceIdentityProductsEnvironmentalDestroyedPornographyEnvironmental Change Author:Marshall McLuhan
“Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.” PeopleTodayIndividualLossEnvironmentViolenceInformationIdentityPlanetsRevolutionElectricTestingExtinctionPromptsReassuranceRediscoveryLoss Of Identity Author:Marshall McLuhan
“The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it. Con el destierro y el exilo fuimos desuñados, destroncados, destripados - we were jerked out by the roots, truncated, disemboweled, dispossessed, and separated from our identity and our history.” StillsPoliticalWhiteFictionViolenceFeetLandIdentityRootsOppressionMexicoLockedRootedSuperiorityPolitical PowerStripping Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well.” WellsAmericaCultureViolenceBloodIdentityBuildingNativeGenocideRelativeAshesAncestryPunWreckagePersonal IdentityNexus Author:Anne Waldman