"Print vs. Electronic Media" is Lapham deriving from McLuhan. | "Citizen vs. Nomad" is Lapham's own set of antonyms. | |||||
| ||||||
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 |