A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

However, the American car had been fashioned in accordance with the visual mandates of the typographic and the movie images. The American car was an enclosed space, not a tactile space. And an enclosed space…is one in which all spatial qualities have been reduced to visual terms.
Understanding Media (1964), MIT/Routledge edition, p 327
Year: 1964
Chapter: Car
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