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bias in language and philosophy. An enthusiasm for Heidegger’s
excellent linguistics could easily stem from naive immersion in
the metaphysical organicism of our electronic milieu. If the
mechanism of Descartes looks paltry today, it may be for the
same subliminal reasons that it looked resplendent in its own
time. In that sense all fashions betoken somnambulism of some
kind, and are one means of critical orientation to the psychic
effects of technology. Perhaps this is the way to help those
who want to say: “But is there nothing good about print?” The
theme of this book is not that there is anything good or bad
about print but that unconsciousness of the effect of any force
is a disaster, especially a force that we have made ourselves.
And it is quite easy to test the universal effects of print on
Western thought after the sixteenth century, simply by
examining the most extraordinary developments in any art or
science whatever. Fragmented and homogeneous lineality,