The Medium here is not the message, quite the opposite: the very medium that we use- the universal intersubjectivity of language-undermines the message. (Slavoj Žižek)

The Medium here is not the message, quite the opposite: the very medium that we use- the universal intersubjectivity of language-undermines the message.

Slavoj Žižek

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