#McLuhan

Hyon S Chu

hyonschu

The ability to focus your attention and point it at the things that are important to you is going to be the most important skill of the 21st Century.McLuhan said

Zero HP Lovecraft

0x49fa98

The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan. Core thesis: the way we use our senses to perceive the world also shapes the way we interpret our perceptions. Print media isolates the

"Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing"

Aelkus

My most Luddite opinion is that you must pick one a) the ability to connect with arbitrary numbers of people simultaneously around the world b) rich, multi-modal, interaction that mutually

Ur-Caecus

LackOfView

Fleurs du Mal is a vision of the city as the technological extension of man. Baudelaire had once intended to title the book Les Limbes. The vision of the city

Andy Rowell

AndyRowell

Mike Pence, Mike Huckabee, James Dobson, Eric Metaxas, Al Mohler, Tony Perkins, Gary Bauer, Hugh Hewitt, and Jay Sekulow were or are radio talk radio hosts. Is there a corrosive

Jeet Heer

HeerJeet

1. Do you want to commit a perfect crime? Here's one tactic: you take a natural catastrophe like the pandemic & use it as a cover for a destructive act:

Duncan Reyburn

duncanreyburn

Thinking about an idea I remember reading in Owen Barfield's Poetic Diction, about a kind of connection between a kid's use of language and the way the ancients used lanaguage;

Ezra Klein

ezraklein

Over the years, I’ve had a lot of discussions with Facebook officials about how engagement-based, algorithmic social media changes people. They tend to argue it doesn’t: It just reveals what’s

Dr. Jeffrey Guterman

JeffreyGuterman

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. ~ Frank Zappa I can calculate the movement of stars but not the madness of men.

Tudor Girba

girba

The governor of New Jersey called explicitly for COBOL programmers to help with the development of the unemployment system:https://twitter.com/manicode/status/1246497036389793792This is how the software environmentalism crisis looks like. A

Kat Domingo

_katrinadomingo

ALERT! Some netizens starting to red tag @ANCALERTS anchor and 2020 Marshall McLuhan fellow @IanEsguerra just because he has a photo with CPP founder Joma Sison.Please spread the word to

Winston

syncretizm

Roam is a new medium, so it's not about adapting zettels (card-based) to Roam, but developing a new native method within Roam (block-based)."The medium is the message." - McLuhan Zettels

Incunabula

incunabula

Am I the only one here who has very sensibly used this two months of quarantine to fulfill a boyhood ambition 40 years later and finally buy a chunk of

Phil Whittall

simplepastor

'Voter fraud' in the US is a perfect example of 2 different worlds. Those on the right are seeing report after report of claims & examples. They're seeing them in

NwahPogrom

NwahPogrom

American elites can only at this point be regarded as a cruel and unfunny joke. As @imperius would say "fools destined for fall". Military bases around the globe, in countries

Máirín Ní Ḋuḃṫaiġ ᚋᚐᚐᚔᚏᚔᚔᚅ #BLM

mairin

At least I'm not crazy, but I am also so sadhttps://discuss.python.org/t/disappointed-and-overwhelmed-by-discourse/982/78 Like.... Discourse has a fatal flaw that Hyperkitty was explicitly designed to avoid. Yet somehow it's getting

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