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
Chapters:
Language | Training of Perception
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan