A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The sender goes on the air and is instantaneously everywhere without a body. Electricity creates the angelic or discarnate being of electronic man, who has no body.
“Man and Media,” lecture delivered at York University, Toronto, (1979), in Understanding Me (2003), p 288
Quote #2572
Year: 1979
Chapters: Discarnate | From Tribal to Literate | Hardware / Software | Today’s Transition
↪ Also at #1496, #2374, #6867
Compiled by William Kuhns
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