A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

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[In Baudelaire’s “Hypocrite lecteur”] The sudden reversal whereby the audience becomes the speaker and the speaker assumes the collective mask of the image he presents, was a revolution that involved all subsequent writing. Stephen Daedelus is not Joyce, nor an artist, but the audience of the time in its corporate imaging of art and the artists.
“The Lewis Vortex” (1971) p 5
Year: 1971
Chapter: Symbolists
Compiled by William Kuhns
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