Explanations that ignore the perceptual complementarity of eye and ear lead to conceptual conflict—the divorce of "rhyme and reason." "I have often seen it said," repeats the specialist. “Speak that I may see thee," said the seer.
“The Argument: Causality in the Electric World”, in Technology and Culture, Vol.14, No. 1, January (1973), p 13, reprinted in McLuhan Unbound # 3, (2005), p 21
Year: 1973
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