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Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.
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The Eskimo, like any pre-literate, leaps easily from the Paleolithic stone age to the electric age, by-passing the Neolithic specialism.
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There is no connection between the elements in an electric world, which is equivalent to being surrounded by the human unconscious. (p. 260)
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Since Sputnik there is no Nature. Nature is an item contained in a man-made environment of satellites and information.
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The nuclear bomb will turn warfare into the juggling of images. (p. 360)
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The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
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Environments are invisible. Their groundrules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns elude easy perception.
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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
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The media have substituted themselves for the older world.
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The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.
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Our senses are not receptors so much as reactors and makers of different modalities of space. Perhaps touch is not just skin contact with things, but the very life of things in the mind. (p. 256)
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Today we experience, in reverse, what pre-literate man faced with the advent of writing.
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The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
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The unformulated message of an assembly of news items from every quarter of the globe is that the world today is one city. All war is civil war. All suffering is our own.
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Language is a sense, like touch. (p. 271)
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While people are engaged in creating a totally different world, they always form vivid images of the preceding world. (p. 21)
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The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
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Although meaningless in a tribal context, numbers and statistics assume mythic and magical qualities of infallibility in literate societies. (p. 114)
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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
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The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.
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Casting my perils before swains.
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The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...The new media are not ways of relating us to the old world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.
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The stock market was created by the telegraph and the telephone, and its panics are engineered by carefully orchestrated stories in the press. (p. 106)
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