A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

…one of the principal intellectual developments of the past century or so has been the supplanting of linear perspective by a multi-locational mode of perception.
“Inside Blake and Hollywood” (1947), p 710
Quote #5351
Year: 1947
Chapters: Dropout | Linear and Nonlinear | Living Unity | Perception | Perspective, Point of View
↪ Also at #3499, #5330, #5339, #5352
Compiled by William Kuhns
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