This page aims to be an archive of incitements, a gathering of provocative and productive ideas, speculations and attitudes about media and representation. 

The primary goal of this page is not to attract new original material -- though brilliant, pithy new coinages will not be excluded -- but to collect wisdom-fragments already published. This is a space for famous or notorious aphorisms, for seminal formulations and visionary statements that will provoke readers to new or renewed insight about media, ancient and modern.

Submissions are welcome. 

  provocation    posted  
  edward abbey    20 july 1997  
         william gibson    7 may 1997  
  jon katz    27 june 1997  
  claude levi-strauss    23 june 1997  
  a nation can afford anything it can produce   8 september 1997  
  telegraphy without wires, 1899?   31 august 1997  
  raymond williams    30 june 1997  
  wired?    12 may 1997