Without an understanding of causality there can be no theory of communication. What passes as information theory today is not communication at all, b… - Marshall McLuhan

The new overkill is simply an extension of our nervous system into a total ecological service environment. Such a service environment can liquidate or terminate its beneficiaries as naturally as it sustains them. (p. 152)

Manuscript culture is conversational if only because the writer and his audience are physically related by the form of publication as performance. (p. 96)

Every process pushed far enough tends to reverse or flip suddenly. Chiasmus – the reversal to process caused by increasing its speed, scope or size. (p. 6)