Epstein Secrets

ture at MIT and author of Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Sens

Shannon, and Marshall McLuhan, all of whom had currency in the New York art circles in which I was then moving. In particular, Cage had picked up on McLuhan’s idea that by inventing electronic technologies we had externalized our central nervous system—that is, our minds—and that we now had to presume tha

ture at MIT and author of Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Sens

s of Curating and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects. In the Introduction to the second edition of his book Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan noted the ability of art to “anticipate future social and technological developments.” Art is “an early alarm system,” pointing us to new development

ture at MIT and author of Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Sens

Shannon, and Marshall McLuhan, all of whom had currency in the New York art circles in which I was then moving. In particular, Cage had picked up on McLuhan’s idea that by inventing electronic technologies we had externalized our central nervous system—that is, our minds—and that we now had to presume tha

ture at MIT and author of Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Sens

s of Curating and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects. In the Introduction to the second edition of his book Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan noted the ability of art to “anticipate future social and technological developments.” Art is “an early alarm system,” pointing us to new development