Heidegger surfboards along on the electronic wave as 
triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave.

Typography cracked the voices of silence.

The Gutenberg galaxy was theoretically dissolved in 1905 with 
the discovery of curved space, but in practice it had been 
invaded by the telegraph two generations before that.

Pope’s Dunciad  indicts the printed book as the agent of a 
primitivistic and Romantic revival. Sheer visual quantity 
evokes the magical resonance of the tribal horde. The box 
office looms as a return to the echo chamber of bardic 
incantation.

The new collective unconscious Pope saw as the accumulating