A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The pattern recognition that is quite impossible during processes of slow change becomes quite easy when the same changes are speeded up even to movie or cinematic levels. So, the artist, as a creator of anti-environments or counter-environments, created to permit perception of environments, has a very peculiar role in our society.
“The Invisible Environment,” in The Canadian Architect, Vol. 11, No.5, 1966, p 74
Year: 1966
↪ Also at #5275
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