FILE ON EXPLORATIONSCompany

Explorations

McLuhan developed the distinction between acoustic space and visual space in seminars around the journal *Explorations* in the 1950s.1.

1 SOURCE · 1 DOCUMENTED FACT · OPENED 2026-07-24 · UPDATED 2026-07-24
DEVELOPING FILE

This file has 1 source on record so far more may surface as the record grows.

On the record see profile →

McLuhan developed the distinction between acoustic space and visual space in seminars around the journal *Explorations* in the 1950s.

# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept
“This is McLuhan's most important and most underappreciated distinction. It was developed in the seminars around the journal *Explorations* in the 1950s with Edmund Carpenter, the anthropologist E.S. Carpenter, the urbanist Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, and others, and elaborated in *The Gutenberg Galaxy* (1962), *Understanding Media*, and posthumously in his essay "Visual and Acoustic Space" (with Bruce Pow…”
VERIFIED — a word-for-word match in the stored source