A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

This is the nature of acoustic space, which is constituted by its centre being everywhere and its margin being nowhere. Without the microphone the speaker is at a single centre, while with the microphone he is everywhere simultaneously — a fact which obsolesces the architecture of our existing churches.
“Liturgy and the Microphone”, 1974, in The Medium and the Light (1999), p 110
Year: 1974
Compiled by William Kuhns
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