"For some time now, postmodern culture has comforted itself with the thought that our age is defined by unstable relations between signifier and signified; by delirious uncertainty not only about the past but our own access to events in the present."

"Hackers quickly produced new mash-ups of Google Maps, outlining the damaged areas and allowing concerned friends and family members to pinpoint affected neighborhoods."

"There is very little in today's culture — except perhaps for the copyright of Disney characters — that can be counted on to survive the 21st century."

"Pilots, he asserted, just 'saw things differently' and had an 'easier time' during the war, a veiled reference to the devastation left behind in the wake of planes like his, a consequence his aerial perspective made easier to disavow."

"As with 'The RED Project,' the team behind ThoughtMesh invites you to push beyond the surface of your screen and the modular nature of much of digital culture toward larger enmeshed meanings."