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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