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Marshall McLuhan

Understanding media: the extensions of man

'In our age artists are able to mix their media diet as easily as their book diet. A poet like Yeats made the fullest use of oral peasant culture in creating literary effects. Quite early, Eliot made great impact by the careful use of jazz and film form'
(p.58.81)

Out of insights like this, in profusion, Marshall McLuhan constructs a unified picture of technology-and-mind that undoes stifling specialisations and shows an integrative mind at work.

Walt Whitman

Joseph Beuys

William Morris

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