Yes, we must substitute an interest in the media for the previous interest in subjects. This is the logical answer to the fact that the media have substituted themselves for the older world. Even if we should wish to recover that older world we can do it only by an intensive study of the ways in which the media have swallowed it.
“The Post-Literate Man”, 1973, Cycles 7, p 232
Year: 1973
Compiled by William Kuhns
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