No individual can ever be adequate to grappling with the vision of what Sigfried Giedion calls 'anonymous history’. That is to say, the vision of the significance of the multitude of personal acts and artefacts which constitute the total social process which is human communication or participation. For in this kind of awareness 'commerce' or 'technology' are tools of extremely limited usefulness in discussion.
“The Later Innis” (1953), reprinted in On the Nature of Media (2016), p 40
Year: 1953
Chapter:
Giedion, Sigfried
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan