| "Print vs. Electronic Media" is Lapham deriving from McLuhan. | "Citizen vs. Nomad" is Lapham's own set of antonyms. | |||||
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| vs. | Electronic Media | || | Citizen | vs. | Nomad | |
| visual | tactile | build | wander | |||
| mathematical | organic | experience | innocence | |||
| sequence | simultaneity | authority | power | |||
| composition | improvisation | happiness | pleasure | |||
| eye | ear | literature | journalism | |||
| active | reactive | heterosexual | polymorphous | |||
| expansion | contraction | civilization | barbarism | |||
| complete | incomplete | will | wish | |||
| soliloquy | chorus | truth as passion | passion as truth | |||
| classification | pattern recognition | peace | war | |||
| centre | margin | achievement | celebrity | |||
| continuous | discontinuous | science | magic | |||
| syntax | mosaic | doubt | certainty | |||
| self-expression | group therapy | drama | pornography | |||
| Typographic man | Graphic man | history | legend | |||