Sounds complicated

audition as "three-dimensional thought'

pp. 62-69

in: Stephen Crocker, Bergson and the metaphysics of media, Berlin, Springer, 2013

Abstract

Let us recall the principle of non synchronicity that links McLuhan, Deleuze and Bergson: Our experience is increasingly structured by organic formations and resonant intervals, while our concepts remain the unidimensional and fragmentary residues of the mechanical world. In a 1964 conversation recorded with his friend Glenn Gould, McLuhan, like Deleuze, presents this untimeliness as a problem of planes and dimensions: "We now live in three dimensions, he explains to Gould, even if we continue to think on single planes.'¹