I am not here engaged in trying to prove a materialist determini… — “The Hidden Information Environment”, Address to American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, Toronto, April 15, (1977), Typescript printed in AACSB Bulletin, Vol 13, No 4, (1977) p 25

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I am not here engaged in trying to prove a materialist determinism of historical change, since the very idea of determinism, of lineal cause and effect, supposes a continuity and connectedness that never existed in any historical situation.

“The Hidden Information Environment”, Address to American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, Toronto, April 15, (1977), Typescript printed in AACSB Bulletin, Vol 13, No 4, (1977) p 25

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Year: 1977

Chapters: Causality | McLuhan on McLuhan

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