Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/03610_Field_PRAV T8.txt

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. . . it is not commonly understood that the visual
is the only sense which creates the illusion of
uniform, connected spaces. The man who lives in
an aural world lives at the centre of a
communications sphere, and he is bombarded
with sensory data from all sides simultaneously.
The aurally structured culture has none of the
tracts of visual space long regarded as “normal,”
“natural” space by literate societies. The painter
who works within the confines of a visual, literate
culture has to cope with a milieu in which spaces
tend to be connected. It is a world of logic and
storylines.