Marshall McLuhan’s Mosaic: Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies
In fact, it is not that wrong to read the potentialities of McLuhan’s mosaic through the heuristic process of hypertext, especially since the newest theories on digital hypertext have convincingly discussed it as a form wihich enables and even fosters a convergence between technology and contemporary critical theory..
… we must abandon conceptual systems founded on ideas of centre, margin, hierarchy, and linearity and replace them by ones of multilinearity, nodes, links, and networks… Almost all parties to this paradigm shift, which marks a revolution in human thought, see electronic writing as a direct response to the strengths and weaknesses of the printed book, on of the major landmarks in the history of human thought.