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Not much appears to have really been happening, nevertheless an infinite multitude of events has actually taken place. As the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan stated in a prophetic aphorism in the year 1964: “Today men’s nerves surround us; they have gone outside as electrical environment.” This is certainly the case today. Any event touching the nervous system of other people anywhere in this world, anything moving, upsetting or terrifying them may also reach and upset us.
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Poerksen, B. (2022). Clash of Codes: Or the Age of Indiscreet Media. In: Digital Fever. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89522-8_7
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