A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Today, with all our technology, and because of it, we stand once more in the magical acoustical sphere of pre-literate man. Politics have become musical; music has become politics. Government has become entertainment, and vice versa. Commerce has become incantation and magical gesture. Science and magic have married each other. Technology and the arts meet and mingle.
“Space, Time and Poetry” in Explorations 4, (1955) p 59, (2016) reprint, p 54, reprinted as McLuhan Unbound #13, (2017), p 9
Year: 1955
↪ Also at #4205
Compiled by William Kuhns
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