Word: diffusionism
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The lesson from these cases, as well as from the tobacco settlement, is that that mysterious masked entity known as a corporation is in fact an ingenious device for collectivizing responsibility. Even when a corporation is found guilty, no actual individual need take the fall. But if the defense lawyer...
Twenty-five years ago, the Tofflers wrote in Future Shock that "a well-oiled machinery for the creation and diffusion of fads is now an entrenched part of the modern economy." A generation after their first great sermon, the high priest and priestess of futurism may finally get to practice...
Bill Viola's new series of installations, "Buried Secrets," attempts to deal with issues of communication and miscommunication in a modern world, through manipulation of audibility, visual diffusion of images, juxtaposition of sound and vision and soundless gesture. Though the "message" of each work seems at times overstressed and obvious...
3. THE SMITHSONIAN By James Conaway (Knopf; $60). This handsome volume commemorates the Smithsonian Institution's 150th anniversary. Ironically, the Smithsonian was founded with a financial gift from an Englishman who never set foot in the States. James Smithson was a noted mineralogist who, stung by the Royal Society's...
Later that century, the Smithsonian Institutewas founded in Washington, D.C. in 1890 by agovernment handled grant from James Smithson aimedat the "increase and diffusion of knowledge."