Imagine people in 1910 being baffled by visual cubism, when they wallowed in it in their newspapers every day! The difficulty is not to explain cubism but to account for the mental process of those who found it obscure.
“Electronics as E.S.P.” in Explorations 8, 1957, reprinted as Verbi-Voco-Visual in 1967, both unpaginated
Year: 1957
Chapters:
Cubism | Narcissus, Denial of Media Effects
↪ Also at #1428
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan