This is the nature of acoustic space, which is constituted by its centre being everywhere and its margin being nowhere. Without the microphone the speaker is at a single centre, while with the microphone he is everywhere simultaneously — a fact which obsolesces the architecture of our existing churches.
“Liturgy and the Microphone”, 1974, in The Medium and the Light (1999), p 110
Year: 1974
Chapter:
LOM 2 - Obsolesce
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan