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Culture has so come to mean its loftier dicta (like literature and the arts) that we have needed a Marshall McLuhan to remind us that the medium itself is the message. And the message is: metamorphosis. We are being shaped by the tools we shape; and culture is the way of life being impressed on a community by its technics.
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Joaquin, N. (1982). Culture as History: The Filipino Soul. In: Amirthanayagam, G. (eds) Asian and Western Writers in Dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04940-0_12
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