home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Understanding McLuhan
/
Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso
/
mac
/
McLuhan
/
MCLUHAN.DXR
/
08698_Field_TCGG T463.txt
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1996-04-10
|
899b
|
16 lines
The interface of the Renaissance was the meeting of medieval
pluralism and modern homogeneity and mechanism—a formula
for blitz and metamorphosis.
* An age in rapid transition is one which exists on the
frontier between two cultures and between conflicting
technologies. Every moment of its consciousness is an act of
translation of each of these cultures into the other. Today we
live on the frontier between five centuries of mechanism and
the new electronics, between the homogeneous and the
simultaneous. It is painful but fruitful. The sixteenth century
Renaissance was an age on the frontier between two thousand
years of alphabetic and manuscript culture, on the one hand,
and the new mechanism of repeatability and quantification, on
the other. It would have been strange, indeed, if the age had
not approached the new in terms of what it had learned from