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"Cubism (multi-locationalism) is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space."
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"When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result."
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
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Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Raised in Winnipeg, McLuhan studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained f
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"The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures."
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"There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures."
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"The press is a group confessional form that provides communal participation. The book is a private confessional form that provides a “point of view.” (p. 204)"
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"It is the medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action. (p. 9)"
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"The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art."
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