Mentions (14)
"I remember reading (probably in a McLuhan book) about how before the TV the American elections debates were justthe candidates talking and reading from speeches for hours and the public held their attention, their discourse and thought being more important than their persona."
"Or is it more McLuhan-esque, a symptom of oral culture that shocks us more visual folk idk"
"The message is the medium and HERE WE ARE. For every prosthetic you strap on, expect an atrophy to go with it. Psychologically, socially, physically and spiritually we are suffering from the way mobile computers have shaped us. There is no amount of discipline that will change the way technology cha"
"I think it was McLuhan who said that when the USSR was first exposed to American film, that which struck them weren't the stories (which are virtually the same everywhere), but the fact that all the characters in these films had their own cars, fridges and washing machines."
"i know, this thesis has been thought up by a bazillion undergrads who read two pages of mcluhan, but it's still terrifying to realize that we're going back to illiteracy."
"The collapse of this unsustainable global village is imminent and the world will take over some form of technological primitivism. Humankind will reconnect with the power of manual dexterity"
"I very much know this isn't even remotely a particularly new or revolutionary idea and already DFW, Baudrillard, Neil Postman, William S. Burroughs, Marshall McLuhan and probably twelve dozen other people have written about this in some form over the last 60 or so years"
"in '22 we understand that the medium is the message, that form has primacy over content (marshall mcluhan and women always knew this). caring about theory and discourse and pop culture psyop ragepolitics? that's soooo 2021."
"McLuhan speculated that there'd come a time when a technology would be able to connect our minds with one another - the Internet presumbaly - and that would bring an end to the print era and its specialisation, and usher in retribalisation and a return to oral culture, which I guess the rising popul"
"I think it was McLuhan who said that when the USSR was first exposed to American film, that which struck them weren't the stories (which are virtually the same everywhere), but the fact that all the characters in these films had their own cars, fridges and washing machines."
"The collapse of this unsustainable global village is imminent and the world will take over some form of technological primitivism"
"I very much know this isn't even remotely a particularly new or revolutionary idea and already DFW, Baudrillard, Neil Postman, William S. Burroughs, Marshall McLuhan and probably twelve dozen other people have written about this in some form over the last 60 or so years"
"in '22 we understand that the medium is the message, that form has primacy over content (marshall mcluhan and women always knew this)."
"McLuhan and somewhat schizo posting for sure, but it would seem that back in Ancient Greece, people could speak about politics, law, philosophy and theology whilst simultaneously being accomplished artists or playwrights and athletes... McLuhan speculated that there'd come a time when a technology w"