A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

…having begun as a repetition or formal “parody” of the outer world, photography has now reached the stage of revealing structure and formal constitution. A similar evolution has occurred in our understanding of the animal world. The nineteenth century zoo had been a space that contained captive animals. The twentieth century zoo….they now study [the animals] as creating their own kinds of space as “territoriality.”
Untitled contribution, To Everything There Is a Season (1967), p 312
Year: 1967
Chapter: Photography
Compiled by William Kuhns
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