The Medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan
Language: EnglishKeywords:
Communications
Media
Society
Technology
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Unabridged
Vinyl capture of 1968 release. Very good quality.
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Audio version of Marshall McLuhans entertaining, provocative and piquant book.
With every technological and social advancement, McLuhan’s proclamation that “the media work us over completely” becomes more evident and plain. In his words, so pervasive are they in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, or unaltered.
McLuhan suggests modern audiences enjoy MainStream media as soothing, enjoyable, and relaxing; however, the pleasure we find in the MainStream media is deceiving, because/as/since the changes between society and technology are incongruent, perpetuating an Age of Anxiety.
McLuhan’s remarkable observation that “societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication” is undoubtedly more relevant today than ever before. With the rise of the internet and the explosion of the digital revolution there has never been a better time to revisit Marshall McLuhan.
Hat tip to whoever captured and filtered this from vinyl.
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 5/5
October 29th, 2020
So, vinyl has revolved to become the medium once more? Cool, daddio, I dig it.
October 29th, 2020
I re-read some Barthes recently, and I was surprised at how much more sensible cultural criticism used to be back before we had structuralism, radical feminism, and the fake news brigade.
So I re-visited R D Laing and John Sutherland, and I was just thinking of checking in with McLuhan again.
I suspect public intellectuals were less public and more intellectual back then.
Thanks for this post.
October 29th, 2020
McLuhan = light years ahead of his time in his perceptions and especially predictions of Sociological behavior, trends, and their impacts on society as whole. The way he synthesized his observations & probing thoughts distinguished him as species apart from his peers. Social and Cultural critiques were extremely clear sighted and marksman on-the-spot on. That man predicted Social media in…the 60’s(amongst many other modern day maladies) with such eerie accuracy, my friends and I were left with mouths agape and a look of imbecile-mystification lol. So I can imagine why they thought him a nut in his time.
October 29th, 2020
Thank you so much. Seems to still be rtelevant. And I love what the above poster says: “I suspect public intellectuals were less public and more intellectual back then.”
Perfect.
November 11th, 2020
Thank you very much!!
November 29th, 2022
Could someone please be kind and seed _/\_
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