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<nettime> "We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us."



On 25/07/14 16:05, nettime's de-terminator wrote:
> You probably recall the phrase, "We shape our tools and, thereafter, our  
> tools shape us."  It is often attributed to Marshall McLuhan but, in fact,  
> it was suggested by John Culkin, SJ, who is the one who invited McLuhan to  
> Fordham University in 1967.

"We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us."

Winston Churchill, 1943.




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