In the first episode (4/19/11) of iON's solo productions titled "MOI", iON features 104 minutes of talk by Marshall McLuhan (from 24:45 to 2:09:05), then translates "MOI" as "Marshall on iON":
http://fivebodied.com/archives/audio/ca ... 9--MOi.mp3Beginning at approximately 42:14 of the recording (a little before the section quoted below):
1. McLuhan/iON said during a talk to the American Booksellers Association convention in Washington, D.C., June, 1969:
"... Anything that undermines the phonetic alphabet and its dominance and its power of releasing the eye as the dominant organ, ends civilization. There are lots of things better than civilization but if you like civilization, that's the end of it. 'Civilization' is a technical term based upon the dominance of the eye over the other senses. We live in an electric age which is non-visual and non-visualizable, and the chemical bond as taught to us by Linus Pauling, Heisenberg, and others is interval, resonance. The quantum mechanics boys have been telling us for 50 years that the bond of being - the thing that holds the world together - is sound, resonance. There are no connections in matter - nothing that can be called a 'connection' - only resonance... Our DNA boys and our NASA boys still try to visualize space - meaning they have no relation whatever to the science they talk about...."
Continuing at 47:05:
1. Illustrating iON's maxim, "Every death is a suicide" - a violent quest for identity ("who am I?")
2. Why iON picked Canadians to promote iON
Continuing at 49:50 of the recording:
1. Predicted spiritual feminism and the World of the Witch, book of the future ("New Age" literature)
2. Predicted the rise of the Japanese in electronics manufacture
3. Jazz in the 1920s was the new Tower of Babel (unified all the cultures of the world) - via a universal language of gesture, not of words.
4. Predicted the U.S.A. as the Beast, the misfit, in the Global Theater
Bob Neveritt
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