The Gutenberg Galaxy
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| "Such a reverse perspective of the literate [[Western world]] is the one afforded to the reader of [[Albert Lord]]'s ''[[Singer of Tales]]''. But we also live in an electric or [[post-literate]] time when the [[jazz musician]] uses all the techniques of [[oral poetry]]. Empathic identification with all the oral modes is not difficult in our century." --''[[The Gutenberg Galaxy]]'' (1962) by Marshall McLuhan | "Such a reverse perspective of the literate [[Western world]] is the one afforded to the reader of [[Albert Lord]]'s ''[[Singer of Tales]]''. But we also live in an electric or [[post-literate]] time when the [[jazz musician]] uses all the techniques of [[oral poetry]]. Empathic identification with all the oral modes is not difficult in our century." --''[[The Gutenberg Galaxy]]'' (1962) by Marshall McLuhan | ||
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| - | "What [[Montagu]] opens up here concerning the intense practicality of the [[non-literate]] applies perfectly as gloss to Joyce's [[Bloom]] or [[Odysseus]], the resourceful man. What could be more practical for a man caught between the [[Scylla]] of a literary culture and the [[Charybdis]] of [[post-literate]] technology to make himself a raft of ad copy? He is behaving like Poe's sailor in the ''[[Maelstrom]]'' who studied the action of the whirlpool and survives. May not it be our job in the new electronic age to study the action of the new vortex on the body of the older cultures? " --''[[The Gutenberg Galaxy]]'' (1962) by Marshall McLuhan | + | "What [[Ashley Montagu|Montagu]] opens up here concerning the intense practicality of the [[non-literate]] applies perfectly as gloss to Joyce's [[Bloom]] or [[Odysseus]], the resourceful man. What could be more practical for a man caught between the [[Scylla]] of a literary culture and the [[Charybdis]] of [[post-literate]] technology to make himself a raft of ad copy? He is behaving like Poe's sailor in the ''[[Maelstrom]]'' who studied the action of the whirlpool and survives. May not it be our job in the new electronic age to study the action of the new vortex on the body of the older cultures? " --''[[The Gutenberg Galaxy]]'' (1962) by Marshall McLuhan |
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"A great deal of what is said by Bernard van Groningen in his study of the Greek time sense, In the Grip of the Past, is useful in understanding the effects of visual bias as they concern the time sense."--The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) by Marshall McLuhan "Such a reverse perspective of the literate Western world is the one afforded to the reader of Albert Lord's Singer of Tales. But we also live in an electric or post-literate time when the jazz musician uses all the techniques of oral poetry. Empathic identification with all the oral modes is not difficult in our century." --The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) by Marshall McLuhan "What Montagu opens up here concerning the intense practicality of the non-literate applies perfectly as gloss to Joyce's Bloom or Odysseus, the resourceful man. What could be more practical for a man caught between the Scylla of a literary culture and the Charybdis of post-literate technology to make himself a raft of ad copy? He is behaving like Poe's sailor in the Maelstrom who studied the action of the whirlpool and survives. May not it be our job in the new electronic age to study the action of the new vortex on the body of the older cultures? " --The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) by Marshall McLuhan
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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962) is a book by Marshall McLuhan.
This book popularised the terms global village and Gutenberg Galaxy. McLuhan analysed the effects of various communication media and techniques on European culture and human consciousness.
McLuhan studies the emergence of what he calls Gutenberg Man, the subject produced by the change of consciousness wrought by the advent of the printed book. A propos of his axiom, "The medium is the message," McLuhan argues that technologies are not simply inventions which people employ but are the means by which people are re-invented. The invention of movable type was the decisive moment in the change from a culture in which all the senses partook of a common interplay to a tyranny of the visual. He also argued that the development of the printing press led to the creation of nationalism, dualism, domination of rationalism, automatisation of scientific research, uniformation and standartisation of culture and alienation of individuals.
Movable type, with its ability to reproduce texts accurately and swiftly, extended the drive toward homogeneity and repeatability already in evidence in the emergence of perspectival art and the exigencies of the single "point of view". He writes:
- the world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.(136)
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