读麦讲演人与媒介（1979）006

　　However, the dropout is the figure of our times. He is the person who is trying to get in touch. When you get uptight you have to let go in order to get back in touch. ＂To get in touch＂ is a strange phrase. When a wheel and an axle are playing along together, as long as there is a nice interval between wheel and axle, they are in touch. When the interval gets too big or too small, they lose touch, the wheel is either uptight, or seized up, or else falls apart. Keeping in touch requires this interplay, this interface, which is a kind of interval of resonance. Touch is actually not connection but interval. When you touch an object there is a little space between yourself and the object, a space which resonates. This is play, and without play there cannot be any creative activity in any field at all.
　　然而，退学生是我们时代的象征。他是想要试图发挥特长的人。当你感到不自在的时候，你得放手才能恢复接触。＂取得接触＂是一个不可思议的短语。在轮轴一起运转的时候，只要轮轴之间存在一个合宜的间隔，它们就在能接触到的地方。一旦这间隔变得太大或太小，它们就接触失败，轮子要么过紧或卡住，要么松散掉。保持接触需要这样的相互作用、这样的接合部位，这是一种用于共振的间隔。接触实际上不是连接而是间隔。在你接触一个物体的时候，你自己和该物体之间存在一个小空间，一个共振的空间。这就是活动空间，在如何领域，没有活动空间就不会有任何创造性活动。
　　按： 接触不是连接而是间隔，这样的接合部位是产生共振、共鸣之类相互作用的活动空间。接触，in touch，联系，发挥才能，在能接触到之处；共振，resonance，谐振，共鸣，回声；活动空间，play，活动范围，活动的自由，运转，间隙。
　　退学生是书面-机械文化向电子文化过渡的过渡时期的象征。退学生预演了电子人的行事方式：接触-放手-再接触，在不断扰动的过程中发挥特长。