A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Having outered ourselves in new materials we have to behold ourselves anew. And we then become what we behold. This was Blake’s mythic version of social change.
“The Electronic Age – The Age of Implosion”, in Mass Media in Canada, Ed., John A. Irving (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1962), p 193
Year: 1962
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