Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08417_Field_TCGG T182.txt

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externalized description, uniform illumination, uninterrupted
connection, free expression, all events in the foreground,
displaying unmistakable meanings, few elements of historical
development and of psychological perspective . . .”

     The visual makes for the explicit, the uniform, and the
sequential in painting, in poetry, in logic, history. The
nonliterate modes are implicit, simultaneous, and
discontinuous, whether in the primitive past or the electronic
present, which Joyce called “eins within a space.”

     Van Groningen relates the new visual and sequential idea
of chronology with “the awakening of the scientific sense in
Greece,” which, it is true, tries to observe the facts with
accuracy, but wishes even more to know the explanation and
looks for it in preceding causes. This visual notion of “causality”