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Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
All words, in every language, are metaphors.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode – a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
The Chinese used the intervals between things as the primary means of getting 'in touch' with situations.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos – resonant utterance or word.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
Tactility is the space of the interval; acoustic space is spherical and resonant.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
The field of 'information theory' began by using the old hardware paradigm of transportation of data from point to point.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
Formal logic and the logical syllogism encapsulate connectedness in reasoning.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
Prolonged mimesis of the alphabet and its fragmenting properties produced a new dominant mode of perception and then of culture.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
The culture-heroes of preliteracy and postliteracy alike are robots.
Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)