A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

During the past century art has revealed that the changing environment is not perceptible to unaided human attention. Throughout all human time, men have been engaged in conscious awareness of the preceding environment, which presents itself as a nostalgic art form. The current environment creates an overload of sensation that obliterates pattern and form. My study of literature became an aid to the perception that led me to undertake the task of understanding the relation between culture and technology.
“Autobiography,” undated 3-page typescript, from the early 1970s, p 2
Year: 1970
Chapter: Environment
Compiled by William Kuhns
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