The present book develops a mosaic or field approach to its problems. Such a mosaic image of numerous data and quotations in evidence offers the only practical means of revealing causal operations in history. The alternative procedure would be to offer a series of views of fixed relationships in pictorial space. Thus the galaxy or constellation of events upon which the present study concentrates is itself a mosaic of perpetually interacting forms that have undergone kaleidoscopic transformation— particularly in our own time. With reference to the current transformation, the reader may find the end of the book, “The Galaxy Reconfigured,” the best prologue. (McLuhan 1962, p.iv)
McLuhan, M., 1962. The Gutenberg Galaxy. University of Toronto press.
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