Some years ago I took a cue from Malraux's 'museum without walls' and began to write about, classrooms without walls pointing to the fact that the space of the modem classroom is based on the printed book. The kind of uniform, repeatable enclosure of data from the press made it possible for the first time in history to have the same book in front of teacher and students alike.
“Inside the Five Sense Sensorium (1961)”, reprinted in Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader (2005), p 50
Year: 1961
Chapter:
Museum
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Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan