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Now that by electricity we have externalized all of
our senses, we are in the desperate position of
not having any sensus communis . Prior to
electricity, the city was the sensus communis for
such specialized and externalized senses as
technology had developed. From Aristotle onward,
the traditional function of the sensus communis is
to translate each sense into the other senses, so
that a unified, integral image is offered at all
times to the the mind. The city performs that
function for the scattered and distracted senses,
and spaces and times, of agrarian cultures.
Marshall McLuhan to Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, Dec 23,