Carpenter, E., & McLuhan, M. (1970). Acoustic space. In E. Carpenter & M. McLuhan (Eds.), Explorations in Communication. (pp. 65–70). London: Jonathan Cape.
Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard 07/01/2017, 10:56
"In our society [...] to be real, a thing must be visible, and preferably constant. We trust the eye, not the ear."
"Auditory space has no favored focus. It's a sphere without fixed boundaries, space made by the thing itself, not space containing the thing."
"Auditory space has no boundaries in the visual sense [...] There is nothing in auditory space corresponding to the vanishing point in visual perspective [...] auditory space lacks the precision of visual orientation."
"[Auditory space] can be filled with sound that has no "object," such as the eye demands."
"pure visual space is flat, about 180 degrees, while pure acoustic space is spherical. Perspective translated into visual terms the depths of acoustic space."
A reminder that the infant must learn to see -- reverse lateral field, achieve binocular vision, revert the upside-down world, learn a sense of depth (a child unable to move would only have a 2D world). Authors state that depth, the 'chief characteristic of visual space,' is not primarily derived from visual experience but from locomototion and kinaesthetic experience (a blind child achieves depth perception through audition and locomotion).
McLuhan, M. (1964). Understanding media: The extensions of man. London: Sphere.
Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard 19/01/2006, 12:06
"The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message, as it were, unless it is used to spell out some verbal ad or name. This fact, characteristic of all media, means that the "content" of any medium is always another medium. The content of writing is speech, just as the written word is the content of print, and print is the content of the telegraph."
"An abstract painting represents direct manifestations of creative thought processes as they might appear in computer designs."
