Ghosts in a Super Flat Global Village: Globalization, Surrealism, And Contemporary Japanese Horror Films (Critical Essay‪)‬

In the electric age, when our central nervous system is technologically extended to involve us in the whole of mankind and to incorporate the whole of mankind in us, we necessarily participate, in depth, in the consequences of our every action. It is no longer possible to adopt the aloof and dissociated role of the literate Westerner ... As electrically contracted, the globe is no more than a village. --Marshall McLuhan (Understanding Media 20)