c/marshall-mcluhan
Explore Marshall McLuhan’s groundbreaking theories on communication, technology, and why "the medium is the message" in the digital age.
…by it. We are inside, and the light surrounds us. The whole world has become a happening, a light show. It's what James Joyce called the charge of the light brigade. Now, McLuhan has pointed out that people don't read newspapers. They step into them, the…
…Nobody ever called TV escapism. Surah is very much like TV very involving very Mosaic like very much light through Joyce Joyce James Joyce calls TV the charge of the light barricade The light comes through charges at the viewer it's an x-ray form TV is…
…our bodies to these new environments. The body doesn't fit into an environment anymore, it makes the environment. It makes that space. James Joyce has a phrase, which I'll put on the board because hard to get by ear alone. Joyce said of his Finnegan's…
…Age, no more nature. The whole planet becomes programmed like a teaching machine. The whole human environment is now a teaching machine. James Joyce put it this way, he said, the herb, it orbs. The city becomes terrestrial in scope and the planet in turn…
…less power to involve the whole man than TV, or involve in the sense of drag people into its parlor, as it were. But James Joyce devotes parts of the Finnegan's Wake to film and TV, and he explains his approach to film is in the section called The…
…find the great instructors in all media matters are these painters and poets of the later 19th century and people like James Joyce and others. And they spent their lives studying our senses as they go out technologically into the environment because they…