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again and again, on the rounds of a concentric spiral with
seeming redundancy. One can stop anywhere after the first few
sentences and have the full message, if one is prepared to “dig”
it. This kind of plan seems to have inspired Frank Lloyd Wright
in designing the Guggenheim Art Gallery on a spiral, concentric
basis. It is a redundant form inevitable to the electric age, in
which the concentric pattern is imposed by the instant quality,
and overlay in depth, of electric speed. But the concentric with
its endless intersection of planes is necessary for insight. In
fact, it is the technique of insight, and as such is necessary for
media study, since no medium has its meaning or existence
alone, but only in constant interplay with other media.
The new electric structuring and configuring of life more
and more encounters the old lineal and fragmentary procedures
and tools of analysis from the mechanical age. More and more