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Marshall McLuhan

Is the Netflix Documentary a Paean to Catholic Convert and Daily Communicant Marshall McLuhan?

Is the Netflix Documentary a Paean to Catholic Convert and Daily Communicant Marshall McLuhan?

The Social Dilemma uses the intellectual framework built by McLuhan, but the similarities stop there The Social Dilemma documentary has broken records. According to its main star, Tristan Harris, 38 million households in the first 28 days saw it on Netflix. That’s incredible. What’s even more incredible? The

Did Video Bring Us BLM, Riots, and COVID Hysteria?

Did Video Bring Us BLM, Riots, and COVID Hysteria?

A new essay about the Marshall McLuhan disciple, Neil Postman You like dead white guys? How about a dead white guy who was the disciple of a dead white guy? I do. I also like DWG Marshall McLuhan and his disciple, DWG Neil Postman, whose Amusing Ourselves to Death is

Ben Franklin and the Mouse

Ben Franklin and the Mouse

How I finally accepted multi-tasking It had been there for years, but I had never noticed it. Until one morning when I found myself with a telephone receiver tucked under my neck while I talked with an acquaintance, a computer mouse in my hand while I surfed the Internet, and

Cell Phones, Radio, and the Philosophy of Marshall McLuhan

Cell Phones, Radio, and the Philosophy of Marshall McLuhan

Breaking down a 21st-century matter by bringing back a 1960s icon. My first cell phone was the Motorola RAZR V3. That was in 2005. I didn’t use it a lot at first, but it made me more accessible to my clients. I would often use it to return calls

Does the Telephone Cripple the Right Hemisphere . . . Thereby Preoccupying our Pysches in General?

Does the Telephone Cripple the Right Hemisphere . . . Thereby Preoccupying our Pysches in General?

Low spatial frequency means not much information is present, so you have to do extra work to make out what you are looking at. Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things, Chp. 2. Looked at through Marshall McLuhan lingo: “Hot” media and “cool” media were McLuhan’s buzz dichotomy. A hot

QR Codes Aren't Evil

QR Codes Aren't Evil

They just feel that way. We ought to be asking "why?"

McLuhan Sighting

McLuhan Sighting

"Philosophize This" dedicates an episode to Marshall McLuhan. It's very good. The podcast is here. The transcript to the podcast is here. You ask people that question what would you rather be? Blind or deaf? And 99% of people say they'd rather be deaf.

The Architecture of Speed

The Architecture of Speed

Thoughts build your everyday existence. Technology affects your thoughts. The implications? Ask Marshall McLuhan. Sometimes I’m Gothic. Other times, Tudor-ish. In the morning I might be Romanesque, but by the afternoon I’m Bauhaus. The architecture of my mind changes day-to-day, hour-to-hour, sometimes minute-to-minute. I generally want to live