- we are tired of division: media, culture, society, law, meaning, humanity, and so on. these are interconnected terms, defined by one another. they must be re-united.
- explication has been held prisoner by written language for too long. as if we only understand words. as if true meaning were only possible to produce there. we do not throw away written language, we add to it. images. animations. film. interactive software. code. meaning through all forms, not one alone.
- the media humanist flows into the format that serves his/her message, s/he does not force it into a medium.
- we seek the multiple over the single, several over the individual, collaboration over competition.
- in the age of the global network, we believe in sharing rather than hoarding. do not shut away your work, for it will die if left alone, if left unable to breathe through movement in the network.
- the media humanist must share his/her work with the world, and let the world make things anew from it.
- the media humanist thinks about form and content in the same instance. neither is primary. neither is secondary. they are complimentary and co-producing.
- media humanism believes in the inherent humanity of media: made by man it is of men, for men, imagined by men. when it forms it is always the touch of some humanity in a machine (language, computer, projections, etc.) even when the touch is the trace on its reader/viewer/participant.
- the world needs media humanism because the world is mediated by humanity.
- media does not have to be educative, though it is wonderful when it is. instead, media must only provide a place for people and people’s ideas to meet. it is in this way that media is society and media is law and media is culture and all those things are, of course, media.
- we believe in production, and consumption in its ability to be productive.
- we are not a rupture or an end, we only ask for a new direction. we are not a break, we believe in books. but we also believe books can get better.
- the media humanist is not opposed to existing forms, s/he is not an alternative to the journalist, the scholar, the critic, the lawyer, the judge, or the priest. s/he is not a isolated type, but an attitude available to any and all.
- the media humanist wants media humanists.
- the media humanist is a friend to the past, a person of the present, a promise to the future.
- the media humanist is
a media humanist’s manifesto
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