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The Thing of It Is, We Must Live with the Living

The Medium Is the Massage, pp. 94-96

John Walter, Author
Introduction, page 6 of 10
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Dance of Death

"This clash naturally occurs in transitional periods. In late medieval art, for instance, we saw the fear of the new print technology expressed in the theme of The Dance of Death."

The Dance of Death, or the Danse Macabre, was a medieval allegory regarding the universality of death. It's message is that regardless of who you are, peasant or king, child or elder, we are all subject to death's call. The image on the upper half of pages 94-95 is the Dance of Death scene from Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal.

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The Medium Is the Massage, pp. 94-95    Death and the Printing Press    Common Failure    Child, from the Dance of Death    Danse macabre by Michael Wolgemut    Death's Coat of Arms, from the Dance of Death    Knight, from the Dance of Death    Nun, from the Dance of Death    Old Man, from the Dance of Death    Pages 94-95    Pedlar, from the Dance of Death    Bridal Pair, from the Dance of Death    The Pope, from the Dance of Death

Related:  Pedlar, from the Dance of Death,  Theater of the Absurd,  Introduction,  Death's Coat of Arms, from the Dance of Death,  Nun, from the Dance of Death,  Bridal Pair, from the Dance of Death,  Old Man, from the Dance of Death,  Death and the Printing Press,  The Medium Is the Massage, pp. 94-95,  Pages 94-95,  Common Failure,  Child, from the Dance of Death,  Knight, from the Dance of Death,  Clash of Technologies,  The Pope, from the Dance of Death,  Danse macabre by Michael Wolgemut,  New Media,  Kennedy on Telstar. Europe /sees News Conference, 1962/07/23