For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created. - Mark Kingwell

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought.

It is only through a devoted attention to the details of objects and faces in the modern urban scene, he argues, that the commodity fetish of capitalism can be effectively dispelled.