Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore's The Medium is the Massage PDF

By Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore

ISBN-10: 1584230703

ISBN-13: 9781584230700

30 years after its booklet Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the therapeutic massage is still his such a lot wonderful, provocative, and piquant booklet. With each technological and social "advance" McLuhan's proclamation that "the media paintings us over completely" turns into extra obvious and undeniable. In his phrases, 'so pervasive are they of their own, political, monetary, aesthetic, mental, ethical, moral and social outcomes that they go away no a part of us untouched, unaffected, or unaltered'.
McLuhan's outstanding commentary that "societies have continually been formed extra by means of the character of the media during which males converse than via the content material of the communication" is certainly extra correct at the present time than ever prior to. With the increase of the net and the explosion of the electronic revolution there hasn't ever been a greater time to revisit Marshall McLuhan.

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We employ visual and spatial metaphors for a great many everyday expressions. We insist on employing visual metaphors even when we refer to purely psychological states, such as tendency and duration. For instance, we say thereafter when we really mean thenafter, always when we mean at all times. We are so visually biased that we call our wisest men visionaries, or seers! Reminders—(relics of the past)—in a world of the PRINTED word-efforts to introduce an AUDITORY dimension onto the visual organization of the PAGE: all effect information, RHYTHM, inflection, pauses.

Young people are looking for a formula for putting on the universe—participation mystique. They do not look for detached patterns—for ways of relating themselves to the world, a la nineteenth century. EDUCATION Develop A Powerful Memory? A noted publisher in Chicago reports there is a simple technique for acquiring a powerful memory which can pay you real dividends in both business and social advancement and works like magic to give you added poise, necessary self-confidence and greater popularity.

Listeners could memorize with greater ease what was sung than what was said. Plato attacked this method because it discouraged disputation and argument. " "Blind," all-hearing Homer inherited this metaphorical mode of speech, a speech which, like a prism, refracts much meaning to a single point. "Precision" is sacrificed for a greater degree of suggestion. Myth is the mode of simultaneous awareness of a complex group of causes and effects. Electric circuitry'confers a mythic dimension on our ordinary individual and group actions.

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