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Marshall McLuhan Anonymous Mon Aug 19 17:06:28 2019 No.13667770 [Reply] [Original]

Is it necessary to actually read his work or are Wikipedia summaries enough? Does he go much further in depth? Admittedly, Medium is the Massage sounds like a fun read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 19 17:42:27 2019 No.13667937 >>13667770 Yes read him and others. Hope this makes for a decent /technology/ general for now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 19 18:06:15 2019 No.13668049 >>13667770 What kind of question is this? Do you not enjoy reading? Do you just absorb summaries for pseud cred or something?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 19 18:20:45 2019 No.13668111 >>13667770 What is your goal? What do you want to achieve or attain?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 19 19:47:48 2019 No.13668583 bump

Anonymous Mon Aug 19 20:27:49 2019 No.13668809

>>13667937
>>13668049
>>13668111
I have other things I'm reading and I very briefly allude to him in a piece of writing I'm working on. There are much higher priority books for my project, and I have dozens of unread books besides.

What more would I get from purchasing his work? What ideas does he develop beyond just "media have their own impact beyond content"?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 19 20:29:50 2019 No.13668819 >>13668809 In my opinion his thesis falls prey to itself

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 19 21:58:13 2019 No.13669336 >>13668819 [4chan post]

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 19 23:52:13 2019 No.13669866 >>13668809 Well then why don't you just go to Wikipedia for all of those other things then mister lazy?

Anonymous Tue Aug 20 07:28:21 2019 No.13671441

Is there anybody writing today that has a similar vibe as Marshall?

Analysis of how new media is shaping society?

'From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg' was pretty great, as was 'What Technology Wants', and also the recent Adam Curtis documentaries.

What else should I be reading?

Anonymous Tue Aug 20 07:29:05 2019 No.13671442

>>13667770
Post-meaning, the medium is the only message. The trajectory of sense becomes tied to what you want to hear, not what I want to say: language screaming through us from the future in self-fulfiling prophecy, using the human body and our digital creations as vehicles. The world falls back to ur-tribalism, mysticism and sacrificing goats: the luxury flat of the future middle class becomes a bunker.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 20 09:39:13 2019 No.13671853 >>13668809 Finnegans Wake is the real acid Alice in Wonderland is about electricity

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 20 10:40:31 2019 No.13672105 >>13669866 I already read it all, I'm asking about beyond Wikipedia. >>13671853 Alice in Wonderland is about opium nods.

Anonymous Tue Aug 20 10:57:42 2019 No.13672164

>>13669866
>>13672105
Oh, I misread. I didn't go to Wikipedia for the other readings because the other readings are more important. I'm honestly very skeptical that there is any depth to McLuhan's ideas beyond the obvious surface level content. If you disagree, well, show me where I'm wrong.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 20 14:17:15 2019 No.13673224 >>13671441 Sherry Turkle, Clay Shirky, Nicholas Carr, there are plenty of others. This is why I want a /technology/ general to take off.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 20 14:54:06 2019 No.13673466 >>13673224 Is the Heidegger fixation among some tech-talkers bullshit?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 20 15:01:25 2019 No.13673518 >>13673466 I wouldn't say so.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 20 15:15:05 2019 No.13673608 >>13673518 Why not?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 20 15:19:52 2019 No.13673649 File: 2.76 MB, 400x353, 1564406405643.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13667770 >Is it necessary to actually read his work or are Wikipedia summaries enough? DIE ZOOMER, NEWFAG SCUM!

Anonymous Tue Aug 20 15:22:22 2019 No.13673665

>>13673649
It's funny how despite mocking me for posing the questioning of what value his work has beyond the superficial summary form of his seemingly very superficial summary form type ideas, nobody in the thread has yet mounted any kind of defense for the depth of his work. Is it possible [gasp!] that none of you have read him?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 20 15:35:46 2019 No.13673758 File: 6 KB, 214x236, Grayons.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13673665 >Do my work for me and tell me why he is important instead of me having to read the whole book and figure it out on my own!

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 20 16:06:24 2019 No.13673974 >>13673758 See >>13673649

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 20 16:07:56 2019 No.13673982 >>13673974 Yes, we are in agreement, not sure what the point of your post is.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 20 16:48:31 2019 No.13674234 >>13672164 The polite answer is that your question answers itself.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 20 19:16:14 2019 No.13674991 How do I acquire a cult-following for my social theory art books so that I can live humbly off of royalties the rest of my life?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 21 01:49:27 2019 No.13676792 >>13673608 He was an important egg hider

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