Art is anything you can get away with.
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If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire.Marshall McLuhan
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
Marshall McLuhan
For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.
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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Marshall McLuhan
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.
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