Re: Got to Get Your Own

Erik Gaderlund (erikg@macconnect.com)
Thu, 12 Jun 1997 22:55:46 -0800

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>On Thu, 12 Jun 1997 08:30:44 +0200 B=C2rd =FFvervoll <herb@icenet.no> write=
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>>>found a record of marshall macluhan (the medium is the message) a
>>>few weeks back.. some great word about technology, media and well
>other
>>>wacked out 60s thoughts... very good...
>>
>>the guy is nuts.... and i have to look for that album
>
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>I don't think he's nuts -- maybe that means I'm nuts! Neil Postman
>refers to him constantly in his book "Amusing ourselves to death" (which
>by the way is where Ex-Pink Floyd Roger Waters got the title for his solo
>project "Amused to death"). He presents a brilliant poststructuralist
>critique of television that apparently is bases on Marshall Macluhan's
>early work.
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>Peace,
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>Pedro Cevallos
>--

Just pick up Macluhan's "Medium is the _Massage_",reissue by HardWired
Books. I also like the quote in the inside credits of Wired magazine:
"Education is ideally civil defence against media fallout."

later,
erik g

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