Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/09137_Field_TCGG T902.txt

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     in a world of increasing socialization, standardization,
     and uniformity, the aim was to stress uniqueness, the
     purely personal in experience; in one of ‘mechanical’
     rationality, to assert other modes through which human
     beings can express themselves, to see life as a series of
     emotional intensities involving a logic different from that
     of the rational world and capturable only in dissociated
     images or stream of consciousness musings. (8)

     Thus the technique of the suspended judgment, the great
discovery of the twentieth century in art and physics alike, is a
recoil and transformation of the impersonal assembly line of
nineteenth century art and science. And to speak of the stream
of consciousness as unlike the rational world is merely to insist
upon visual sequence as the rational norm, handing art over to
the unconscious quite gratuitously. For what is meant by the