the governing class was touring Disneyland, as it were. So it 
must have appeared to Marx and his followers. But they 
reckoned without understanding the dynamics of the new 
media of communication. Marx based his analysis most 
untimely on the machine, just as the telegraph and other 
implosive forms began to reverse the mechanical dynamic.

     The present chapter is concerned with showing that in 
any medium or structure there is what Kenneth Boulding calls a 
“break boundary at which the system suddenly changes into 
another or passes some point of no return in its dynamic 
processes.” Several such “break boundaries” will be discussed 
later, including the one from stasis to motion, and from the 
mechanical to the organic in the pictorial world. One effect of 
the static photo had been to suppress the conspicuous 
consumption of the rich, but the effect of the speed-up of the