of new environments, men have become aware of the arts as 
“anti-environments” or “counter-environments” that provide 
us with the means of perceiving the environment itself. For, as 
Edward T. Hall has explained in The Silent Language , men are 
never aware of the ground rules of their environmental 
systems or cultures. Today technologies and their consequent 
environments succeed each other so rapidly that one 
environment makes us aware of the next. Technologies begin to 
perform the function of art in making us aware of the psychic 
and social consequences of technology.

    Art as anti-environment becomes more than ever a means of 
training perception and judgment. Art offered as a consumer 
commodity rather than as a means of training perception is as 
ludicrous and snobbish as always. Media study at once opens 
the doors of perception. And here it is that the young can do