I am an intellectual thug who has been slowly accumulating a private arsenal with every intention of using it. In a mindless age every insight takes … - Marshall McLuhan

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

Hypnotized by their rear-view mirrors, philosophers and scientists alike tried to focus the figure of man in the old ground of nineteenth-century industrial mechanism and congestion. They failed to bridge from the old figure to the new. It is man who has become both figure and ground via the electrotechnical extension of his awareness. With the extension of his nervous system as a total information environment, man bridges art and nature. (p. 11)

In modern thought, (if not in fact)
Nothing is that doesn’t act,
So that is reckoned wisdom which
Describes the scratch but not the itch.