over the last 20 years, we have internalized Marshall McLuhan’s insight “the medium is the message:” whenever somebody comes up with something, we jump on the bandwagon and reduce our thinking to 140-character-aphorisms, even as, cultural critics are lamenting the … Continue reading →
15. February 2010 by Philipp
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Tags: books, google book settlement, kittler, mcluhan, Twitter, wittgenstein |
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As netizens, we have internalized Marshall McLuhan’s insight that “the medium is the message”: if somebody comes up with a new medium, we immediately jump on the bandwagon and reduce our thinking to 130-character-aphorisms-with-a-tinyurl-attached. Of course, cultural critics are lamenting … Continue reading →
08. June 2009 by Philipp
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Tags: aufschreibesysteme, discursive silence, friedrich kittler, mcluhan, media realism, medium is the message |
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