McLuhan: It means lineal. Now, that’s a point that is very, very basic for again it has not been studied by modern psychologists or any other psychologists. But visual space is the only space that is connected, is a continuum. Touch is totally discontinuous, acoustics are completely discontinuous, and so with all the other senses. The sense of sight alone is a continuum. And it was isolated or abstracted by the alphabet. The alphabet left sight and the connected spaces of sight in the saddle. It pulled out the other senses. It left sight alone and supreme. That’s the Greek world in which sight is supreme. Sight is a connected continuum, it is uniform and static. Visual space is continuous, homogeneous, connected, and static.
Forsdale: Wonder if we can sort of reduce those notions into some kind of example. By visual space, you mean when
