The contours of the resultant cartoonlike image [of TV] are fles… — “Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan: A Candid Conversation with the High Priest of Popcult and Metaphysician of Media”. By Eric Norden. Playboy Magazine, March (1969), p 61, reprinted in The Essential McLuhan (1995), p 246

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The contours of the resultant cartoonlike image [of TV] are fleshed out within the imagination of the viewer, which necessitates great personal involvement and participation; the viewer, in fact, becomes the screen, whereas in film he becomes the camera.

“Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan: A Candid Conversation with the High Priest of Popcult and Metaphysician of Media”. By Eric Norden. Playboy Magazine, March (1969), p 61, reprinted in The Essential McLuhan (1995), p 246

Quote #842

Year: 1969

Chapter: Cartoons, Comics