A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

We have all noticed how lineality has faded from the current scene. The chorus line, the stag line, the assembly line, all have gone the way of the clothes line.
Marshall McLuhan
“Inside the Five Sense Sensorium” (1961), reprinted in On the Nature of Media (2016), p 53
Quote #2479
Year: 1961
Chapters: Goodbye Linearity | Hemispheres of the Brain | McLuhanisms & Zingers | Satirist | Today’s Transition
↪ Also at #2636, #4209, #6232, #6953
Compiled by William Kuhns
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