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Container Among The Thing Contained

Container Among The Thing Contained

“I have always assumed that the user of any medium is the content. The person who turns on the electric light is the content of the electric light, just as the reader of a book is the content of the book. This is standard Aristotelian and Thomistic doctrine, that the cognitive agent is himself thing and content.” 

▪Marshall McLuhan

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