Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08377_Field_TCGG T142.txt

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outstanding early effort of such dissociation. The great spurt in
invention which began in the sixteenth century rested on the
gradual dissociation of the machine from animal form.” Printing
was the first mechanization of an ancient handicraft and led
easily to the further mechanization of all handicrafts. The
modern phases of this process are the theme of Mechanization
Takes Command  by Siegfried Giedion.

     However, Giedion is concerned with a minute tracing of
the stages by which in the past century we have used
mechanism to recover organic form:

     In his celebrated studies of the ’seventies on the motions
     of men and animals, Edward Muybridge set up a series of
     thirty cameras at twelve-inch intervals, releasing their
     shutters electromagnetically as soon as the moving