environments, which in turn have traumatic and paranoiac effects. It reverses into the global village theatre; Orson Welles’ invasion, where there are no spectators, only actors.
Forsdale: Let’s go through that slowly to be sure we’ve got the steps.
McLuhan: The first one is crucial, of course, because you decide at that point what the figure-ground is going to be. Radio, of course, is figure in the hardware sense, but then you ask what does it do? It enhances access to the entire planet.
Forsdale: First basic message then of the medium is access to entire planet. Then you hypothesize that radio, as will all
