CONTENTS Foreword ... ⅶ Part Ⅰ 1. The Medium Is the Metaphor ... 3 2. Media as Epistemology ... 16 3. Typographic America ... 30 4. The Typographic Mind ... 44 5. The Peek-a-Boo World ... 64 Part Ⅱ 6. The Age of Show Business ... 83 7. 'Now. . . This' ... 99 8. Shuffle Off to Bethlehem ... 114 9. Reach Out and Elect Someone ... 125 10. Teaching as an Amusing Activity ... 142 11. The Huxleyan Warning ... 155 Notes ... 165 Bibliography ... 173 Index ... 177