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October 12, 2009: The Media Squat for 10/12/2009
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| the ramones | We Want the Airwaves | Anthology: Hey, Ho, Let's Go |
| the ramones | We Want the Airwaves | Anthology: Hey, Ho, Let's Go |
Mon. 10/12/09 6:07pm
From:
Charles-A.
Mc Luhan, my hero. :-)
Mon. 10/12/09 6:08pm
From:
Charles-A.
McLuhan is ultimately a "1:N 'Savant"'
Mon. 10/12/09 6:10pm
From:
Charles-A.
McLuhan was prescient, but only up to a point.
Mon. 10/12/09 6:11pm
From:
Charles-A.
McLuhan was rather like John Ralston Saul.
Mon. 10/12/09 6:14pm
From:
Charles-A.
John Ralston Saul, who wrote "Voltaire's Bastards" was another major intellectual at the time.
Mon. 10/12/09 6:21pm
From:
Charles-A.
Both were incredibly opaque. (I would refer you to the post-phenemonologist writers A. Kroker & D. Cook - The Postmodern Scene. Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics)
Mon. 10/12/09 6:23pm
From:
Charles-A.
That's why McLuhan wrote "The Electric Bride" though "The Electronic Bride" would have been more correct.
Mon. 10/12/09 6:25pm
From:
Charles-A.
Old masters fetch a god price, unlike old mistresses. :-)
Mon. 10/12/09 6:28pm
From:
Charles-A.
The word, as captured in writing, is a poor thing when compared to the post-McLuhan media uses.
Mon. 10/12/09 6:30pm
From:
Charles-A.
Governance as something other than an aleatory, personal reality is a recent production.
Mon. 10/12/09 6:33pm
From:
Charles-A.
Television is still a 1:N medium. YOUR input is NOT required for its production.
Mon. 10/12/09 6:37pm
From:
Charles-A.
Visual media fundamentally consume enormous streams of data. The problem is that these "hot" media fundamentally non-participatory.
Mon. 10/12/09 6:38pm
From:
Charles-A.
Oops, that 'cool" medium.
Mon. 10/12/09 6:38pm
From:
mr.x
television is the reason for our downfall
Mon. 10/12/09 6:40pm
From:
Charles-A.
Television is ultimate 1:N medium. All that data but no information and no contribution from you whatsoever
Mon. 10/12/09 6:41pm
From:
Charles-A.
Hello mr.x "qué passa"
Mon. 10/12/09 6:46pm
From:
Charles-A.
YouTube when allied with ProSumer video cameras, is the ultimate N:M "sensory medium.'
Mon. 10/12/09 6:48pm
From:
Charles-A.
The next revolution in Google will be matching of images to descriptions of those images.
Mon. 10/12/09 6:51pm
From:
Charles-A.
Typography is a development of writing as it evolves to re-capture pre-literate exressionism.
Mon. 10/12/09 6:57pm
From:
Charles-A.
The argument of the uses of media is immaterial to the existence of the media themselves.
Mon. 10/12/09 7:00pm
From:
Charles-A.
We will never re-invent McLuhan
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