The Renaissance made a clean sweep of the vast methodologies and… — “The Argument: Causality in the Electric World”, in Technology and Culture, Vol.14, No. 1, January (1973), p 16, reprinted in McLuhan Unbound # 3, (2005), p 19

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The Renaissance made a clean sweep of the vast methodologies and dialectics of scholastic disputation. Today, we are making a clean sweep of all the merely private points of view achieved through five centuries of intense individualism.

“The Argument: Causality in the Electric World”, in Technology and Culture, Vol.14, No. 1, January (1973), p 16, reprinted in McLuhan Unbound # 3, (2005), p 19

Quote #6960

Year: 1973

Chapter: Today’s Transition