“Audile-tactile space is the space of involvement. We lose "touch" without it. Visual space is the space of detachment.”

— Marshall McLuhan

1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)

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

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