A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The interiorization of the technology of the phonetic alphabet translates man from the magical world of the ear to the neutral visual world.
The Gutenberg Galaxy : The Making of Typographic Man , (1962), p 18
Quote #5684
Year: 1962
Chapters: Eye vs Ear | Present [The]
↪ Also at #2243
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