Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by m… — “The Agenbite of Outwit”, In Location Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, (1963), reprinted in Marshall McLuhan Essays Media Research : Technology Art Communication, (1997), p 124

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Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization, and created the individual.

“The Agenbite of Outwit”, In Location Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, (1963), reprinted in Marshall McLuhan Essays Media Research : Technology Art Communication, (1997), p 124

Quote #3523

Year: 1963

Chapters: Individual | Literacy

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