A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The role of women had also become fragmented with the advent of industrial specialism and the explosion of home functions into laundries, bakeries, and hospitals on the periphery of the community. Intensity or high definition engenders specialism and fragmentation in living as in entertainment, which explains why any intense experience must be "forgotten," "censored," and reduced to a very cool state before it can be "learned" or assimilated.
Understanding Media (1964), MIT/Routledge edition, pp 23-24
Year: 1964
Chapter: Hot & Cool
Compiled by William Kuhns
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