A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Have you encountered the work of Ed Hall? He said he got the idea of our technologies as outerings of sense and function from Buckminster Fuller. I got it from nobody. But now I find it the core of Wm. Blake. Blake saw that when outered (uttered) any sense becomes a closed system. You know, Walter, the Schoolmen will never help us with these problems. They will never come to grips with anything at all. Why wait for them?
Letter to Walter Ong, February 27, 1962 in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987) p 287
Year: 1962
Chapter: Extension Theory
Compiled by William Kuhns
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