Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980
Birthday: July 21
Death: December 31
The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.
source: Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.155, University of Toronto Press
topic: Art, Technology, Space, Rebound, Gutenberg, Resonating, Homogeneous