A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Just as Mill fought for individuality even though he had given up the self, the poets and artists moved towards the idea of impersonal process in art production in proportion as they berated the new masses for impersonal process in the consumption of art products. A similar and related reversal or chiasmus occurred when the consumer of popular art was invited by new art forms to become participant in the art process itself
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, (1962), p 277
Year: 1962
Chapter: Charisma
Compiled by William Kuhns
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