If the caller is not identified or chooses not to identify himself, he loses touch with a geographic location and a social function. He becomes truly discarnate and, in that psychic sense, uncontrollable-a phone poltergeist who occasionally produces the obscene phone call.
“Ma Bell Minus the Nantucket Gam: Or the Impact of High-Speed Data Transmission” with Bruce Powers, in Journal of Communication, Vol. 31, No. 3, 1981, p 195
Year: 1981
Chapter:
Discarnate
↪ Also at #1525
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan