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A 12-part LRC series, featuring text and iPhone Hipstamatic photography by Rita Leistner - FEB 16, 2012 IPROBE_FIGURE / GROUND Through the windows of an MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) vehicle The Camera is an extension of the eye; a prosthetic device of the beholder In The Medium is the Massage, McLuhan writes: “The main obstacle to a clear understanding [...]
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The Global Village, Circa 2012
Paulo, Palo Alto – these were the loci of global change (Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons) Anouk Dey | January 17, 2012 2011 marked the 50thanniversary of Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and Marshall McLuhan’s centennial. It was also the year in which the city eclipsed the state as the unit of international relations. [...]
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“By 1972, I had read everything published by media guru Marshall McLuhan, and his idea that “we think and live mythically” influenced our tactics. Although we employed good science, we understood that the facts don’t always win the public mind. When we launched the whale campaign in 1974, I had a clear image in my [...]
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Electricity Those familiar with Marshall McLuhan will remember his view, and it was not his alone, that our technologies are fundamentally extensions of ourselves. And in McLuhan’s view, electric technologies were extensions of our nervous system. “When information moves at the speed of signals in the central nervous system, man is confronted with the obsolescence [...]
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By Francesco Guardiani - McLuhan Studies, Issue 6 (1996) Abstract: A very successful book formulated years ago in its title, The Coming Dark Age, (from the original Italian, Il medioevo prossimo venturo, by Roberto Vacca, published in 1971) a sense of anxiety over planetary end-of-the-second-millennium problems, such as “nuclear holocaust, overpopulation, pollution and ecological disaster”. What is [...]
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As I wrote before, Mark Zuckerberg is a minor constellation in the McLuhan Galaxy. McLuhan’s vision of media embraces ALL media, the Internet with all its Facebook, Google YouTube and other constellations included. Marshall McLuhan was A Man for all Media……AlexK Marshall McLuhan, the greatest media theorist of our age, the man who coined the expressions [...]
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‘Global village’ or global delusion? It was a nice line but how real was the notion the ‘global village’? And can technology change things in and of itself? Ethan Zuckerman and Tom Standage, two leading thinkers and writers, give us their take on the work of Marshall McLuhan today and where we may be heading [...]
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McLuhan’s Centennial By Joseph P. Duggan on 7.21.11 MANAMA, Bahrain — I had a meeting in Bahrain, not far from where I live, on March 2, 2011, at about the midpoint of a month of street demonstrations that began with euphoria over Egypt and Tunisia’s popular uprisings and ended in martial law. There was no violence in [...]
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© Estate of Yousuf Karsh, California PROMISE HSU | WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2011 THE CREATION ALWAYS SEEMS somehow destined to become better-known than its creator. For example, while innumerable people will have heard or spoken of “the global village”, few know who coined that catchphrase. It might seem to make no difference if one knows of the originator [...]
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A Man for All Media
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Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan
A 12-part LRC [Literary Review of Canada] series, featuring text and iPhone Hipstamatic photography by Rita Leistner . It covers territory originally explored by McLuhan in “War & Peace in the Global Village”(1968), using his ideas as the basis for a series of probes. Editor’s note: this series ran from February 02 to March 13, 2012. It is best appreciated [...]
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