A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Discarnate man, deprived of his physical body, is also deprive of his relationship to Natural Law and physical laws. As a discarnate intelligence, he is as weightless as an astronaut, but able to move very much faster. Minus the physical mesh of Natural Laws, the user of electronic services is largely deprived of his private identity. The TV experience is an inner trip, and is as addictive as any known drug.
“A Last Look at the Tube” (1978) in The Man and His Message (1989), p 197
Year: 1978
Chapter: Discarnate
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