
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 14
Variant: Until writing was invented, we lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, the dark of the mind, the world of emotion, primordial intuition, terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. (p. 13)
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 13
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 14
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 13
Source: Speeches And Letters Of Abraham Lincoln, 1832 1865
“Tactility is the space of the interval; acoustic space is spherical and resonant.”
1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
Context: Here, at the birth of modern science, is a fundamental insight. Our knowledge of nature Out There begins with knowledge of ourselves In Here. Until we have freed our minds and emotions of the hidden presuppositions that stand between us and the world, we can never be certain we are in touch with reality.
Afterword: The Idols of the Bedchamber
“We invent by intuition, though we prove by logic.”
Eminent Indians (1947)
“The telegraph press mosaic is acoustic space as much as an electric circus.”
1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)
“Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.”
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 55
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 40