Today, with all our technology, and because of it, we stand once more in the magical acoustical sphere of pre-literate man. Politics have become musical; music has become politics. Government has become entertainment, and vice versa. Commerce has become incantation and magical gesture. Science and magic have married each other. Technology and the arts meet and mingle.
“Space, Time and Poetry” in Explorations 4, (1955) p 59, (2016) reprint, p 54, reprinted as McLuhan Unbound #13, (2017), p 9
Year: 1955
Chapters:
Living Unity | McLuhanisms & Zingers
↪ Also at #3567
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan