A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.
“Letter to Harold Adam Innis, March 14 1951”, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p 221
Year: 1951
Chapter: Participation
Compiled by William Kuhns
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