Mcluhan

Most economic arguments are simply excuses for doing something inexcusable. They attempt to erect some necessity to justify damage and pain. I want to start from literal ground roots to establish a different agricultural economics that does not trash the planet. Needless to say, this is an urgent project. The…

Explored the work of Theodor Adorno. In the dialectical unfolding of Spirit (or Mind, Truth, etc.), one must be wary of where it moves, and particularly where the flow seems to pool, maintaining instead a critical consciousness. The movement of “enlightenment”, like any movement within creative process, has not been…

I like to collect old books on technology. While waiting for some Chinese take out, I popped into a used book store next door and found a vintage copy of War and Peace in the Age of the Global Village by Marshall McLuhan*; with a rather relevant sub-title: An inventory…

Read Answer to Job today, as well as started my Barfield review. Finished Nietzsche’s Anti-Christ yesterday. Few different things have stood out. Will capture as I go. Probably focus on the Nietzsche stuff later. Barfield’s interest in myth, metaphor, culture, poetry, as well as the integration of disciplines of study…

In early 2020, as COVID-19 was spreading globally, organisations were becoming aware of the impending need to send their employees home to work remotely. Amongst the many logistical aspects that required taking care of, remote working was key. Fortunately, a number of off-the-shelf technical solutions were ready to be deployed…

Marshall McLuhan’s Technological Determinism gained traction during the rise of television. Up until this point, media could only be communicated in print, radio, or by word of mouth. Television offered a new unique view of media. It allowed the viewer to use multiple senses to view this media and a…

Written by Sun-Young HA UX Interaction via Medium Today’s modernists have been led to make a decision with multiple choices in a complex situation. Namely, it becomes ambiguous to distinguish whether this decision is right (fit) or not. I, as a creator, provide commodities with a point of view that I am a customer/user/end-user…

Story behind the Book Choice Today, I wrote an essay. And in that essay, I mentioned McLuhan’s Understanding Media. And when I checked the source, I found out that McLuhan and Fiore also wrote this one abot War and Peace. Given the sad circumstances which we are facing now, I…

As communication channels and methods have evolved tremendously in the past few centuries, have you ever thought about the effect that these channels and methods have on our societal structure and values? Marshall McLuhan set out to explore this, developing his theory for technological determinism. According to the book Applied…