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Explore Marshall McLuhan’s groundbreaking theories on communication, technology, and why "the medium is the message" in the digital age.
…to the visual prison. I often amused at John Cage's name. Since musical bars, in his case, do not a prison make, they make John Cage. They make his new world of a sort of electric circus. Well, where is the cliche and where is the archetype in the…
…powerful. Any popular music is powerful because it puts on the rhythms and the patterns of the whole audience as a mask. John Cage, a composer of new music, has stated, everything we do is music. Everyone is the best seat. Theater takes place all the…
…about the paper quarter, it has made us very conscious of sounds in our environment of which we are ordinarily unconscious. John Cage has a definition of silence in which he says, Silence consists of all those sounds that are unintended All the unintended…
…the visual prison. I often amused at John Cage's name, since musical bars, in his case, do not a prison make. They make John Cage. They make his new world of sort of electric circus. Well, where is the cliché and where is the archetype in the prison…
…continue and have a few questions after a bit of chatting. One of the strange changes that is taking place in our world, and John Cage gave me a curious example of what it meant to him, is that we're moving out of the world of the planter, out of…
…the pot maker, and so on, he came in after the Paleolithic man, and we've had thousands of years of the planter. And John Cage, when I mentioned this to him, he said, that's very interesting. He said, I spend my life hunting mushrooms. I am not the…