home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Understanding McLuhan
/
Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso
/
pc
/
mcluhan.dxr
/
09054_Field_TCGG T819.txt
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1996-04-10
|
910b
|
16 lines
that in the physical domain, there is a continual
succession of intrusions or new creations. The universe is
very far from being a mere mathematical consequence of
the disposition of the particles at the Creation, and is a
much more interesting and eventful place than any
determinist imagines.
That passage explains the title and procedure of the
present book, but is in no way necessary to the configurations
with which we are dealing. Proneness to look for monolinear
causation may explain why print culture has long been blind to
most other kinds of causation. And it has been the consensus
of modern science and philosophy that we have now shifted
from “cause” to “configuration” in all fields of study and
analysis. This is why for a physicist like Whittaker, it seems as
unfortunate for St. Anselm in the early Middle Ages to have