On the other hand we are sort of circling or cycling back to tha… — The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine, Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals, 1967, full transcript of a seminar at the City Museum of New York, October 9-10, 1967, edited by William Buxton, published by U. of Alberta Press, 2026, p 72

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On the other hand we are sort of circling or cycling back to that pre-visual culture – so that much of the latest culture in our world is getting very close to the most primitive culture in terms of the sensory bias. The real gripe we have about the beats, and the hippies, the teenagers, teenyboppers is that they are so primitive.

The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine, Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals, 1967, full transcript of a seminar at the City Museum of New York, October 9-10, 1967, edited by William Buxton, published by U. of Alberta Press, 2026, p 72

Quote #6651

Year: 1967

Chapters: Tactile, Touch | Audience, Public, Mass | Interval

↪ Also at #3102, #568