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McKensie: "We no longer have roots, we have aerials." In an interview in 1977, Marshall McLuhan dialogued with Maria D'Amico (a professor of communications and sometimes journalist from Venezuela) -- D'Amico: What are the main things that you recognize in our culture? McLuhan: Patterns. D'Amico: "Patterns," models of what? McLuhan: Of everything that is happening all around us. For example, this quest for identity, roots, origins: many negroes in America want to see where they came from. That is re-cognize. The problem of seeking roots arises for someone who has no body. In the age of electricity one has no body. When you talk to someone on the telephone, or appear on television, you have no body. All who have no body seek their origins, their identity. When one moves and lives at the speed of light, one feels discarnate, helpless. The new reality is discarnate man. D'Amico: What would the solution be? McLuhan: When you lose your natural body, you must have a supernatural solution. Religion is the only solution when you lose your body, when you are nobody. ["Who Was Marshall McLuhan?", Barrington Nevitt with Maurice McLuhan, Toronto, 1994] Mark Stahlman New York City _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold