A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

One of the conflicts of a progressive and rapidly changing world concerns the use of surrounding services which have been obsolesced by daily innovations and discoveries. A vast new industry has been born from this conflict, and its name is 'Camp', and its motto is: 'Throw something lovely away today. Help beautify junkyards'. Despite the grotesque aspect of 'Camp' as the incessant revival of that which has scarcely had a chance to register its appearance or existence, it has already been itself obsolesced by the popular technology of the video replay. The instant replay, available mainly to the audiences of sporting events, offers, as it were, the meaning minus the experience, reversing Mr. Eliot's observation that “we had the experience but missed the meaning”. The instant replay is the meaning in that it is less concerned with the input of experience than with the process of perception.
“The Implications of Cultural Uniformity” (1973), in Superculture: American Popular Culture and Europe, (1975), p 44
Year: 1973
Chapter: Replay
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