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War and Peace in the Global Village

War and Peace in the Global Village
Marshall McLuhan

War and Peace in the Global Village is a 1968 book by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore. It contains a collage of images and text that illustrates the effects of electronic media and new technology on man. Marshall McLuhan used James Joyce's Finnegans Wake as a major inspiration for this study of war throughout history as an indicator as to how war may be conducted in the future. ,

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“One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.”

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