…the adoption of the phonetic alphabet essentially and that were then tremendously intensified by movable type, is all being exploded. The Gutenberg Galaxy of cultural effects is being left far behind as we move out into a space that we could call…

…approach would be to say: yes we had the repression of fantasy thanks to the print medium dominating the technology of the Gutenberg press and so on for a time, and then we had a liberation through the revival of visual representations thanks to…

…I downloaded copies of the award winning books that interest me and which are still available for free from places like project Gutenberg, or not to mention the almost one million free kindle books that Amazon and others have made available. And one of…

…it to him. And in case you've never read that book, I highly recommend it. It is available for free at Project Gutenberg, by the way. Now, getting back to my story, after reading Dennis's statement about the importance of Clark's books on their thinking,…

…something. I mean, I haven't. There hasn't been that much fun between the covers of one book since Marshall McLuhan wrote the Gutenberg Galaxy. So, you know, if you think of yourself as a feminist, an art historian, a literary critic, an egghead head, all…

…books that Terrence spoke about in this talk today, the temptation of St. Anthony, is available for free at Project Gutenberg, which you'll find@gutenberg.org gutenberg.org along with thousands of other classic books in electronic format. And all of them are…

…most of what he's predicted has come to pass. I think even McLuhan would be amazed at the speed with which the Gutenberg world has been overturned. I mean, there's no hint in here of home computers, let alone interactive networks, virtual reality, phone…

…Understanding media, the extensions of man. This is how most people heard of McLuhan, and he followed it up with the Gutenberg galaxy. These are all first editions. These books I don't think are in print. Few intellectuals in this century have fallen…

…I don't think are in print. Few intellectuals in this century have fallen so totally through the cracks as McLuhan. The Gutenberg galaxy. Very interesting. I'm going to read from some of it tonight. It's organized around chapter headings, such as, does the…

…with topographical layout that also brought him into such congruence with the wake. So let me read you a section from the Gutenberg galaxy that is both interesting to think about, or if you can't understand it, then an interesting example of what McLuhan's…

…not fit the context, although they of course also make signs in the air. Is that perfectly clear? Now back to McLuhan. Gutenberg, with his chrome Magnan charter, expounds by mythic gloss the fact that writing meant the emergence of the cave man or sacral…

…All of these people, it's what it's about. The 20th century is this. Well, McLuhan's phrase comes to mind. The Gutenberg galaxy. The spectrum of effects created by print, the classes, the conceits, the industries, the products, the attitudes, the garments…

…of religion, all of these are cultural effects that McLuhan predicted in the fifties and early sixties in books like the Gutenberg Galaxy, and understanding media, ideally. See, there's a kind of a millenarian cast to all this, because the idea is that…

…this week. And by the way, that book by Bayard Taylor, the Lands of the Saracen, is available for free at Project Gutenberg and I put the link directly to it in today's program notes, which you can find@psychedelicsalon.com. you know, when I heard Terence…

…1440. No, that's in 1450, 515 years later. But that plays a role in it. No, 1440. In Mainz, near Frankfurt, Johannes Gutenberg prints the first book. And if you think the Internet was something, this was a biggie for information technology, for sure. And…

…world we've inherited are strengths and weaknesses put there by printhead and by the spectrum of effects, which McLuhan called the Gutenberg galaxy. The spectrum of effects spun off from print. And if you're not used to thinking in McLean's terms, it may…

…most of what he's predicted has come to pass. I think even McLuhandhe would be amazed at the speed with which the Gutenberg world has been overturned. I mean, there's no hint in here of home computers, let alone interactive networks, virtual reality, phone…

…Understanding media, the extensions of man. This is how most people heard of McLuhan, and he followed it up with the Gutenberg galaxy. These are all first editions. These books I don't think are in print. Few intellectuals in this century have fallen…

…I don't think are in print. Few intellectuals in this century have fallen so totally through the cracks as McLuhan. The Gutenberg galaxy, very interesting. I'm going to read from it, some of it tonight. It's organized around chapter headings, such as, does…

…with topographical layout that also brought him into such congruence with the wake. So let me read you a section from the Gutenberg galaxy that is both interesting to think about, or if you can't understand it, then an interesting example of what McLuhan's…

…not fit the context, although they of course also make signs in the air. Is that perfectly clear? Now back to McLuhan Gutenberg, with his chrome Magnan charter, expounds by mythic gloss the fact that writing meant the emergence of the caveman or sacral…

…human beings in different places with a high speed network. And in that it is new in the same sense that the Gutenberg Bible was new, as you suggested, this medium transformation. We know the discovery of the Alphabet and so on. This always heralded…