Marshall McLuhan's phrase "the medium is the message" raises questions about the relationship between culture and communication technology. Cultures that prioritize visual stimuli may develop technologies like television. Guy Debord's concept of spectacle addresses how passive visual consumption correlates with commodity fetishism, leading to dominance by intangible images. Additionally, the evolution of charts and graphs shows a cultural obsession with digesting complex information into simplified, visually attractive forms, intertwining various philosophical, scientific, historical, and pedagogical projects.
The tendency toward passive visual consumption is tied to 'commodity fetishism,' where society is dominated by both tangible and intangible things, culminating in a spectacle of images.
Early examples of charts and graphs were elaborate, reflecting care in design aimed at condensing vast dimensions of space and time into easily readable formats.
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