A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

We suppress or ignore much of the world as visually given in order to locate and identify objects in three dimensions. It is the objects which compel our attention and orient our behavior; space becomes merely that which must be traversed in getting to or from them.
“Acoustic Space” (1960), in Media Research (1997), p 39
Year: 1960
Chapter: Acoustic Space
Compiled by William Kuhns
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