A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

As the total environment becomes a technologically prepared environment, languages assume new roles over and above the confrontation of the printed page. Yet the literary man is potentially in control of the strategies needed in the new sensory environment. Language alone includes all the senses and interplay at all times. 
Letter to Michael Wolff, July 3, 1964, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987) p 304 
Year: 1964
↪ Also at #3241, #7046
Compiled by William Kuhns
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