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No really, the map is not the territory, people.
Disputes between nations over territory is nothing new. It’s the stuff of ancient wars, tribal conflicts, and modern diplomatic headaches. Kashmir is a high profile example, as is the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea, to say nothing of Israel/Palestine. Part … Continue reading
Posted in culture, historical, language, politics
Tagged Alfred Korzybski, China, culture, general semantics, Japan, map/territory, maps, media ecology, politics
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Bullshit and the Art of Crap Detection (Neil Postman)
This has been posted elsewhere in the Internet wilderness, but I think it’s substantially more important than most of the other bullshit out there that I’m reproducing it in full, rather than simply linking to it. Enjoy. “Bullshit and the … Continue reading
Posted in education, language
Tagged culture, education, general semantics, language, media ecology, Neil Postman
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40% Ethanol, 60% Water, 100% Irony
“Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.” -Marshall McLuhan McLuhan’s earliest book publication was The Mechanical Bride, which was the culmination of years of collection and note-taking on print ads. He’d torn out or clipped ads from … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, media, technology
Tagged advertising, culture, environment, general semantics, McLuhan, media ecology, myth, technology, television, Twitter, YouTube
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#stormporn
CUNY journalism prof and author of “What would Google Do,” Jeff Jarvis, has become quite the maestro of Twitter hashtags. During the peak of the Washington “debt-crisis” debacle he tweaked the discourse with the trending hashtag #fuckyouwashington and has struck … Continue reading
Posted in media
Tagged environment, general semantics, McLuhan, media ecology, news, television, YouTube
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Google: The Internet’s Cheshire Cat
Lewis Carroll anticipates the Internet and Google…or at least one might play a McLuhanesque game based on the premise. The Matrix certainly makes the explicit link between Through the Looking Glass and the virtual world, but why stop there? The … Continue reading
Posted in media, technology
Tagged general semantics, Google, McLuhan, media ecology, technology
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Neil Postman – ‘The TV Guy’
Let me be blunt. Neil Postman is the reason I chose the path I’ve taken in my post-20s life. Period. At a point in my life when I was most deeply questioning my career in marketing and promotions, when I … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, education, media, technology
Tagged culture, ecology, education, environment, general semantics, McLuhan, MEA, media ecology, Neil Postman, technology, YouTube
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The Music of the New (Fuller) Life
[A hypertext-enhanced post based on a paper I wrote a short while back] Buckminster Fuller was known especially for his viewpoint of the human condition, rooted in the sustainable and ecological, and certainly alternative to the more linear mode of … Continue reading
Figure/Ground (Happy 100th Marshall!)
Marshall McLuhan was born on July 21st, 1911 in Edmonton, Aberta, Canada. This year marks the centennial celebration of his birth, although he died in 1980 at the far too young age of 69. In Canada, as you might imagine, … Continue reading
On Bugs, Bytes and Books
Recently, some friends offered a gift to my children. A male rhinoceros beetle. In Japan, these bulgy-looking, tusked beasts are often the favorite pets of young kids during the summer months and can be readily caught in the wild, if … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, education, media, technology
Tagged Alan Kay, dynamic equilibrium, ecology, education, environment, equilibrium, general semantics, literacy, media ecology, systems, systems thinking, technology, Trivium
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A Twig by any other Name…
With apologies to Rene Magritte, and to avoid the danger of succumbing to French surrealist gobbledygook, I’m not trying to make a statement about the reality of these images or the objective existence of objects. What I’m getting at with … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, environment, extension, general semantics, McLuhan, media ecology, surrealism, technology
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