A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Visual space, on the other hand, is continuous, connected, homogeneous and static. It is the only sensory mode having these characteristics. Visual space is infinitely divisible, whereas all the other senses have spaces that are quite indivisible. This is probably why the electric space of simultaneous information is transforming our entire outlook. That is, we are now using our eye as an ear, and vice-versa.
Letter to Gerald Mason Feigen, January 23, (1974), in Letters of Marshall McLuhan, (1987), p 489
Year: 1974
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