A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

By conferring a means of self delineation of objects, of " statement without syntax," photography gave the impetus to a delineation of the inner world. Statement without syntax or verbalization was really statement by gesture, by mime, and by gestalt. This new dimension opened for human inspection by poets like Baudelaire and Rimbaud le paysage intérieur, or the countries of the mind.
Understanding Media, 1964, MIT/Routledge edition, p 201
Year: 1964
↪ Also at #190, #198, #664
Compiled by William Kuhns
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