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Tag Archives: McLuhan
Don’t Worry It’s Just Like the Internet
Some time ago I posted a video of Neil Postman talking in 1985 on PBS about his thesis for the book Amusing Ourselves to Death. In the course of his discussion, Postman notes that USA Today, the nation’s most successful … Continue reading
Posted in media, technology
Tagged Internet, McLuhan, media ecology, Neil Postman, newspaper, television
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West#FAILia
In the mid-17th century, a series of treaties were signed in Europe to end a raging era of internal conflict that included the Holy Roman Empire and various kingdoms across the continent. The general agreement has been called the Treaty … Continue reading
Posted in culture, historical, media, politics, technology
Tagged culture, McLuhan, media ecology, Obama, politics, sovereignty, technology, war
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Hair, Glorious Hair
Came across this ad in a newspaper last week and thought it was great for a number of reasons: You don’t need to understand the Japanese in order to appreciate the message, so I’m not even going to deal with … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, media, Perception, technology
Tagged advertising, culture, McLuhan, media ecology, technology
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#Occupy Tetrad: The Tent
The tent is one of the emerging symbols of the Occupy movement and for good reason. It’s the semi-permanent structure of the tent that symbolizes the greatest threat to figures of institutional authority. The notion that someone has claimed a … Continue reading
Posted in media, politics, technology
Tagged acoustic space, anti-environment, culture, ecology, environment, McLuhan, MEA, media ecology, occupy, politics, technology, visual space
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Re-Markable Brussels
A transcript of my remarks at the McLuhan Centennial Conference in Brussels, based on my paper Total Involvement: Channeling Education through McLuhan: Good afternoon. I’m very pleased and honored to be here with you all to celebrate and pay respect … Continue reading
Posted in education, media, personal, technology
Tagged cybernetics, education, electricity, Gregory Bateson, McLuhan, media ecology, media literacy, Paul Watzlawick, personal, systems
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Ouch! My Acoustic Space Hurts!
As I sit in my hotel room in Brussels, slightly jet-lagged and counting the hours until I present my paper Total Involvement: Channeling Education through McLuhan at the McLuhan’s Philosophy of Media Centennial Conference (hosted by the Free University of … Continue reading
Posted in Perception, technology
Tagged acoustic space, McLuhan, media ecology, reversal, sound, technology, tetrad, visual space
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Tumblr’s Mental Gymnastics
I’ve been doing most of my “posting” recently via a new Tumblr account I started as a short experiment to see what the fuss was all about. It came to my attention that there’s an ongoing debate about the superiority … Continue reading
Posted in media, personal, technology
Tagged blog, McLuhan, media ecology, technology, Tumblr, Twitter, WordPress
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A Change Gonna Come
With apologies to Sam Cooke and the haunting song he wrote about the struggle for civil rights, a change gonna come. Let’s start with a video that’s gone viral in the last day or so (another sign that the change … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, education, media, Perception, technology
Tagged anti-environment, culture, ecology, education, environment, iPad, literacy, McLuhan, media ecology, Neil Postman, technology
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Dunkers do nots
Some time ago, probably a year or more before this blog post, I was inclined to remember an anecdote about a religious sect who had sworn off publication of their ideas for fear of being entrapped by them. At the … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, historical, media, technology
Tagged culture, ecology, electricity, environment, literacy, McLuhan, media ecology, Neil Postman, print, technology
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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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