A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

If the book can be sent anywhere, as a gift or as a service environment, the paradoxical electric reversal is that it is the sender who is sent. This flip, or chiasmus of form and function occurs at the level of instant speed, and is characteristic of telephone and radio and video alike.
“Do Books Matter?” (1973), in On the Nature of Media (2016), p 209
Year: 1973
Compiled by William Kuhns
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