The increase of visual stress among the Greeks alienated them from the primitive art that the electronic age now reinvents after interiorizing the "unified field” of electric all-at-onceness. (Marshall McLuhan)

The increase of visual stress among the Greeks alienated them from the primitive art that the electronic age now reinvents after interiorizing the "unified field” of electric all-at-onceness.

Marshall McLuhan

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