A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The archetype is retrieved awareness or consciousness. It is consequently a retrieved cliché - an old cliché retrieved by a new cliché. Since a cliché is a unit extension of man, an archetype is a quoted extension, medium, technology, or environment, an old ground seen as figure through a new ground.
Laws of Media: The New Science with Eric McLuhan, (1988), pp 103-104
Year: 1988
↪ Also at #3416
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