A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

I have always assumed that the user of any medium is the content. The person who turns on an electric light is the content of the electric light, just as the reader of a book is the content of the book. This is standard Aristotelian and Thomistic doctrine, that the cognitive agent is himself thing and content.
Letter to William Kuhns, December 6, 1971, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987) p 448
Year: 1971
Chapter: User as Content
Compiled by William Kuhns
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