In the same year that Wyndham Lewis published Self Condemned, Marshall McLuhan took inspiration from Lewiss journal BLAST and produced COUNTERBLAST, intended, like Self Condemned, to shake the city of Toronto out of its smugness, complacency, and spiritu
Taking McLuhan and Lewis as starting points, the essays in this volume develop and push the ideas presented in both BLAST and COUNTERBLAST while the book design pays homage to both thinkers' experiments in typography.
The author's thesis is that innovations in technology, and the communications media, radically alter our perception of the world.
Brief compendium of basic ideas for new avenues of communication in the electronic age, with examples of exploded typography by Canadian designer Harley Parker.
Counterblast
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A Counterblast to M. Hornes Vayne Blast Against M. Fekenham, 1567