Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/06708_Field_TCUM T273.txt

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with the attitude we have come to expect from our painters
and sculptors—the attitude made up of all the senses at once.
To a person using the whole sensorium, nudity is the richest
possible expression of structural form. But to the highly visual
and lopsided sensibility of industrial societies, the sudden
confrontation with tactile flesh is heady music, indeed.

     There is a movement toward a new equilibrium today, as
we become aware of the preference for coarse, heavy textures
and sculptural shapes in dress. There is, also, the ritualistic
exposure of the body indoors and out-of-doors. Psychologists
have long taught us that much of our hearing takes place
through the skin itself. After centuries of being fully clad and of
being contained in uniform visual space, the electric age ushers
us into a world in which we live and breathe and listen with the
entire epidermis. Of course, there is much zest of novelty in this