“The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.”

— Marshall McLuhan

Arts in society, Volume 3, 1964, p. 242
1960s

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Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor … 1911–1980

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