Everything from politics to bottle-feeding, global landscape, and the subconscious of the infant is subject to the manipulation of conscious artistic control—the BBC carries the unrehearsed voice of the nightingale to the Congo, the Eskimo sits entranced by hill-billy music from West Tennessee.
“Culture without Literacy”, in Explorations #1, December (1953), p 123 reprinted in Essential McLuhan, (1995), p 308, additional reprint in Media Research Technology, Art and Communication (1997), p 133. and McLuhan Unbound #6, (2017)
Year: 1953
Chapter:
Global Village
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan