In 1900 Max Planck produced this new quantum physics in which he pulled out all the connections, said there’s no connection in matter. The same year Picasso pulled out all the connections in space between art forms. The same year Freud, that’s 1900, pulled out the connection between the conscious and the unconscious and began his dream analysis. In that year all the connections were pulled out between all the things that had been joined before. And at the same time when Picasso pulled out the connections in space – cubism means all spaces simultaneously – when he pulled out those connections he plunged back into the utmost form of primitive consciousness That is where modern man started, in 1900. Back into the most primitive kind of awareness. And this is where it’s at.
“The Medium Brings His Message to the Governor,” in Los Angeles Times, March 12, 1978, p F1
Year: 1978
Chapters:
Cubism | Living Unity
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan