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114 Chapter Sixteen:

KHLEBNIKOV: THE REVOLT AGAINST LITERACY.

McLuhan sees the essence of the electronics revolution as the overthrow of the cultural tradition of literacy. This chapter shows how Khlebnikov's work can be seen as in a sense anticipating or paralleling this overthrow in the realm of art.