Blake’s counterstrategy to his age was to meet mechanism with organic myth. Today, deep in the electric age, organic myth is itself a simple and automatic response capable of mathematical formulation and expression. Had he encountered the electric age, Blake would not have met its challenge with a mere repetition of electric form.
Understanding Media (1964), MIT/Routledge edition, p 25
Year: 1964
Chapter:
Blake, William
Compiled by William Kuhns
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