Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. - Marshall McLuhan

When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.

The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.

The “interface” of the Renaissance was the meeting of medieval pluralism and modern homogeneity and mechanism – a formula for blitz and metamorphosis. (p. 161)