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Page 183
... communication , centrally organized . In face - to- face communication even the most ignorant person can answer back , and he has various means at his command besides the word — the expression of his face , the stance of his body , even ...
... communication , centrally organized . In face - to- face communication even the most ignorant person can answer back , and he has various means at his command besides the word — the expression of his face , the stance of his body , even ...
Page 258
... communication ; indeed one of the chief concerns of older megamachines was the improvement of road and water communication , with relays of runners and horses , or with galleys pulled in machinelike unison by slaves . Once the telegraph ...
... communication ; indeed one of the chief concerns of older megamachines was the improvement of road and water communication , with relays of runners and horses , or with galleys pulled in machinelike unison by slaves . Once the telegraph ...
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... communication has only hastened the speed , not changed the goal . The goal is total cultural dissolu- tion or what McLuhan characterizes as a ' tribal communism , ' though it is in fact the extreme antithesis of anything that can be ...
... communication has only hastened the speed , not changed the goal . The goal is total cultural dissolu- tion or what McLuhan characterizes as a ' tribal communism , ' though it is in fact the extreme antithesis of anything that can be ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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