A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Lewis Carroll makes inventories of effects as causes that relate modes of dynamic perception. They are neither definitions of concepts nor expressions of opinion, since all patterns of perception merge and metamorphose in the very act of exploration and discovery. They avoid value judgments, and serve as guides to insight and to comprehension through re-cognition of the dynamic structures that occur in all processes. In replaying such patterns we are not taking any side but many sides, also the inside.
“Symposium: Causality, the Argument in an Electric World” (1973), in McLuhan Unbound (2003), p 30
Year: 1973
Chapters: Causality | Probe
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