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Pill Pod 109 - SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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The Vision Is the Most Abstract of the Sensitive

McLuhan says vision is the most abstract of the senses and the most easily deceived, he says. It's a pointing out our modern ocular centrism, right? Vision is the dominant mode of perception. And the spectacle is totally taking advantage of this from our visual, our reliance on visuality.

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