The Analog Sea Review Quotes

“If language is deprived of what is indirect in it, its nature approaches that of a scream or order. Friendliness and politeness are also based on the circuitous and indirect. The orientation of violence, by contrast, is towards directness.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Analog Sea Review: Number One

“The world needs people who retreat from the world in order to see it more clearly.”
― Patrick Shen, The Analog Sea Review: Number One

“We find ourselves in a historical moment of pervasive mediocrity. Fuelled by basic human drives - flights from death and boredom - the new technologies, bright and all consuming, increasingly blur the lines between direct experience and representation. A photograph of an apple is not food and the Internet has neither scent nor texture.”
― Jonathan Simons, The Analog Sea Review: Number One

“There is only one emotion which money has ever extended to idealism - contempt."

- Loneliness and History”
― Leonard Cohen, The Analog Sea Review: Number One