A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

[George] Steiner is also acutely aware of the enhancement (cognition) and retrieval (re-cognition, re-making) aspects of language and suggests that it was the discovery of the retrieval function that enabled speakers to flip language out of content and into technology…
Laws of Media: The New Science with Eric McLuhan, (1988), p 119
Year: 1988
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