Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980
Birthday: July 21
Death: December 31
In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.
source: Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”
topic: Art, Technology, Men, Specifications, Irritants