A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Wyndham Lewis is perhaps the first creative writer to have taken over the new media en bloc as modes of artistic and social control.... With the help of modern scientific medicine he re-edits and refurnishes the various levels of Dante's Inferno in a startling way. The Devils appear as film stars perturbed by the ease with which their supernatural dimensions are mimicked by modern publicity devices. It's this power of the new media which fosters a new humanist movement in Hell.
“Third Program in the Human Age”, in Explorations Magazine, Volume 8, 1957, p 17-18. Reprinted in 1967 as Verbi-Voco-Visual
Year: 1957
Chapter: Lewis, Wyndham
Compiled by William Kuhns
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