Showing posts with label Herbert Marcuse. Show all posts
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5 Jul 2013

Progress, quantity and quality

Progress becomes quantitative and tends to delay indefinitely the turn from quantity to quality – that is, the emergence of new modes of existence with new modes of reason and freedom.

Herbert Marcuse, quoted in Lebbeus Woods, Radical Reconstruction (Princeton Architectural Press, 1997) p. 22