![]() ![]() Numbers are related to the sensual and tactile in the way that language and literacy relate to the visual. ![]() The power of number can be contrasted with the light of reason that is the hallmark of the written word. The driver toward unlimited growth, the pleasure of being among the masses - these both illustrate an anti-intellectualism that has long been subject to the suspicions of the rational among us. ![]() Numbers, he writes, grip us and keep us in their thrall. McLuhan writes, in Chapter 11 of Understanding Media, that "The mysterious need of crowds to grow and to reach out, equally characteristic of large accumulations of wealth, can be understood if money and numbers are, indeed, technologies that extend the power of touch and the grasp of the hand." My contribution to the Understanding Media Reading Group ![]()
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