
Marshall McLuhan discusses a wide range of philosophical topics
Studs Terkel Archive Podcast
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The Convenience of TV
Do you find any evidences of conformity? Well I am bothered by a couple of phenomena of our time. Even when you say we are not living in a visual culture, you are speaking of the fact that so much is happening to our ears and minds. You have to get speeds that you cannot visualize. If I use a visual phenomenon, that is more than a measure. Say television. The scanning fingers of TV gropes out, reaches around the world and handles everything. There is no camera. On TV there is no shutter. It doesn't take pictures. It handles the world. And grasps the world.
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