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of new environments, men have become aware of the arts as
“anti-environments” or “counter-environments” that provide
us with the means of perceiving the environment itself. For, as
Edward T. Hall has explained in The Silent Language , men are
never aware of the ground rules of their environmental
systems or cultures. Today technologies and their consequent
environments succeed each other so rapidly that one
environment makes us aware of the next. Technologies begin to
perform the function of art in making us aware of the psychic
and social consequences of technology.
Art as anti-environment becomes more than ever a means of
training perception and judgment. Art offered as a consumer
commodity rather than as a means of training perception is as
ludicrous and snobbish as always. Media study at once opens
the doors of perception. And here it is that the young can do