Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/06489_Field_TCUM T54.txt

Text File | 1996-04-10 | 883b | 16 lines

associationism, as hypnotized by his own image. The “garden,”
or unified consciousness, ended. Eighteenth-century man got
an extension of himself in the form of the spinning machine
that Yeats endows with its full sexual significance. Woman,
herself, is thus seen as a technological extension of man’s
being.

     Blake’s counterstrategy for his age was to meet
mechanism with organic myth. Today, deep in the electric age,
organic myth is itself a simple and automatic response capable
of mathematical formulation and expression, without any of
the imaginative perception of Blake about it. Had he
encountered the electric age, Blake would not have met its
challenge with a mere repetition of electric form. For myth is
the instant vision of a complex process that ordinarily extends
over a long period. Myth is contraction or implosion of any