Frasi di Theodore Roszak

Flicker (1991)
Contesto: That is what Castle's work needed: a beginner's eye—my eye, before it became too schooled and guarded, while it was still in touch with the vulgar foundations of the art, still vulnerably naive enough to receive that faint and flickering revelation of the dark god whose scriptures are the secret history of the movies.

Quoted in The Aquarian Conspiracy, by Marilyn Ferguson, (1980)

Origine: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.9 Deep Community
Contesto: Without apoptosis, life would not be possible.... when cells lose their ability to die, they run rampant, assuming that life-threatening form we call cancer.... The process of apoptosis by which life and development are governed is profoundly communal.... Cells... need to be "encouraged" to live.

Origine: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.7 The Rape of Nature

Its assumptions about reality and its values become as unobtrusively pervasive as the air we breathe. ...the technocracy increases and consolidates its power... following the dictates of industrial efficiency, rationality, and necessity. ...the technocracy assumes a position similar to that of the purely neutral umpire in an athletic contest. ...we tend to ignore the man ...Yet ...he alone sets the limits and goals of the competition and judges the contenders.

Origine: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.11 Only Connect
Contesto: Women enter the sciences, but "womanliness"—those qualities that have always been stereotypically attributed to females—is not yet entirely welcome, whether it comes into the laboratory wearing pants or a skirt.

Origine: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.9 Deep Community
Contesto: Or perhaps... there is actually an infinity of universes among which only this one has by sheer accident produced the conditions for life and mind. It now requires such artful speculation to maintain an orthodox faith in chance. Skeptics, it would seem, are willing to believe anything.

...when cells lose their ability to die, they run rampant, assuming that life-threatening form we call cancer. ...The process of apoptosis by which life and development are governed is profoundly communal. ...Cells ...need to be "encouraged" to live.
Origine: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.9 Deep Community

Origine: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.7 The Rape of Nature
Contesto: In four centuries of taking wealth and comfort from the body of the Earth, modern science has not troubled to produce a single rite or ritual, not even a minor prayer, that asks pardon or gives thanks. But then what sense would it make to ask anything of a dead body?

The Making of an Elder Culture (2009)
Contesto: The final stage of life... offers us the opportunity to detach from competitive, high-consumption priorities... At that point, life itself—the opportunity it offers for growth, for intellectual adventure, for the simple joys of love and companionship, for working out our salvation—comes to be seen as our highest value.... That is what I have always assumed it means to be countercultural.

The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology (2001)
Contesto: If we could assume the view of nonhuman nature, what passes for sane behavior in our social affairs might seem madness. But as the prevailing reality principle would have it, nothing could be greater madness than to believe that beast and plant, mountain and river have a "point of view." …minds exist, so we believe, nowhere but in human heads.

Origine: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.9 Deep Community
Contesto: Or perhaps... there is actually an infinity of universes among which only this one has by sheer accident produced the conditions for life and mind. It now requires such artful speculation to maintain an orthodox faith in chance. Skeptics, it would seem, are willing to believe anything.

The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
Contesto: Here, at the birth of modern science, is a fundamental insight. Our knowledge of nature Out There begins with knowledge of ourselves In Here. Until we have freed our minds and emotions of the hidden presuppositions that stand between us and the world, we can never be certain we are in touch with reality.

Afterword: The Idols of the Bedchamber

Origine: Where the Wasteland Ends

Origine: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.11 Only Connect

The Making of an Elder Culture (2009)

The Making of an Elder Culture (2009)

Origine: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.10 The Black Madonna

The Making of the Counter Culture (1969)

The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology (2001)

Origine: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.10 The Black Madonna

Origine: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.9 Deep Community

Origine: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.9 Deep Community

The Making of an Elder Culture (2009)

Origine: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.9 Deep Community

Variante: "Technocracy," in The Meaning of Technology. Selected Readings from American Sources (2004) ed. Montserrat Ginés Giber