A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

You can’t have a more complete form of communication than sex. The word for it in Hebrew means knowledge. To know. Knowledge. The highest mode of knowing in the Hebrew language was sex. And it’s come to be that again in our time. Partly because of the new concern with the interface, the tactile involvement. (Interface, a term from chemistry, describes the way surfaces of substances rub against each other until a chemical reaction occurs. It’s a kind of abrasion. It’s tactile. And it disturbs the structure of the substances until they merge.
“Love,” Saturday Night, February, 1967, pp 25-26
Year: 1967
Chapter: Sex and Love
Compiled by William Kuhns
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