Sublime

After three thousand years of specialist explosion and of increasing specialism and alienation in the technological extensions of our bodies, our world has become compressional by dramatic reversal.

The real authority on a world we now view as constructed and not depicted becomes the medium that constructs our world-view.

McLuhan noted that “when information moves at the speed of signals in the central nervous system, man is confronted with the obsolescence of all earlier forms of acceleration, such as road and rail. What emerges is a total field of inclusive awareness. The old patterns of psychic and social adjustment become irrelevant.”

the “technique of the suspended judgment” goes further. It anticipates the effect of, say, an unhappy childhood

Dans les années 1960, le professeur canadien Marshall McLuhan a beaucoup parlé de la manière dont l’arrivée de la télévision transformait notre façon de voir le monde. Il a expliqué que ces changements étaient si pro-fonds qu’il était difficile de vraiment les voir. Il a résumé ce concept par une phrase : «Le média est le message.» Ce qu’il voulait

the power of a close-up televised face, in color, makes idolatry a continual hazard.

Self-amputation forbids self-recognition.