A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The more that is publicly recorded about the actual existence of any person, the more he is diminished in his private existence. Like any public entertainer, he becomes his admirers or his recordings. By a commodious vicus of recirculation, this flips us back to the Electric Circus, in which music is no longer for listening to but merging with.
“Reversal of the Overheated Image”, Playboy, December 1968, p 245
Year: 1968
↪ Also at #937, #1038
Compiled by William Kuhns
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