The twenties were going corporate and tribal fast enough under the huge speed-up of information movement by radio. But their slang is still visual and square (i.e. Euclidean) compared to the tactile, haptic, proprioceptive, and acoustic spaces and involvement of the slang of the TV age.
Letter to Robert J. Leuver, July 30, 1969, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p 385
Year: 1969
Chapter:
Retribalizing
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan