Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/03618_Field_PRAV T16.txt

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Acoustic space is created by our ability to hear
from all directions at once. Electric information
arrives from all quarters at once. Thus, in effect,
acoustic environments were created by the
telegraph and began to show up in the press as
mosaics of juxtaposed and discontinuous items
all under one dateline. Acoustic space is all touch
and interplay, all resonance and sympathy.
Acoustic space is like the relationship of mother
and child, which is audile-tactile sound and touch.
The cooing and handling and touching—this is the
kind of world the electric media put around us.
The electric media are a mom-and-child or rock-
and-roll relationship. Electrically speaking, there’s