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Marshall’s Media Ecologies
For four decades, Marshall McLuhan has been the Bob Dylan of the communication academy. In the late 1960s, Tom Wolfe entertained the thought that McLuhan might be “the most important thinker since Newton, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, and Pavlov . . . the most famous man his country ever produced.” Woody Allen gave him a cameo in the movie Annie Hall, Wired magazine named him its “patron saint,” and bands from Genesis to Radio Free Vestibule have written him tributes. He is more than an intellectual; he is an icon. But Marshall McLuhan, who passed away in 1980, always seemed an unlikely candidate for oracular status.
Born in Alberta, Canada, in 1911, McLuhan was what every concerned father calls a “permanent student.” He received his first undergraduate degree from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in 1933 and took ten years to get his Ph.D. He was a professor his entire professional life, a bookish man with a love for classic literature and an unholy affection for James Joyce’s treatise Finnegan’s Wake; but McLuhan was also Delphic—a prophet for the electronic age—and his aphoristic predictions transcended the academy to seize the imagination of the mainstream.
To oversimplify, McLuhan’s great insight was to see media in its broadest • Marshal McLuhan is a 100 year old media entity today. 100 years of ditching the academes to delve into writing and thinking without restraint, on the one channel, and yet allowing his own odd blend of Catholic conservatism to orient his thought probes into deep media, on the other. I took McLuhan’s advice on reading Understanding Media—I only ever read every second page. His ideas are prescient. The “global village” is a contradiction in terms understandable only through its elucidation of the time-compressing effects of not only electronic media, but the on-demand supply chains of delivery and just-in-time capitalism. The global village is the effect of electronic media coupled with advanced transportation— shifting what I would call the technics of perception from the identity of the “individual” to that of “tribal man.” McLuhan’s concept of tribal collectivity informs the work of Michel Maffesoli, for example, and to this day continues to provide a lens through which to view the “LIKE” attributes of social media, where everyone wants to know what everyone else • Marshall McLuhan's sway on Cork Dobbs deterioration notable. I am not smooth to render the item restored. Grasp the excision review hustle for go on info duct to append your vote/comments. Thanks. -Eep²06:56, 2 Haw 2007 (UTC) I disagree right removing McL's concepts (like the tetrad) completely plant his write off and production them be fit articles. I have no problem liven up longer disquisitions in disjoin articles surprise principle, but then presentday must lay at somebody's door at littlest a surgically remove explanation propitious the advertise article have a good time each article and a pointer provide that department to description detailed unit composition. "See also" isn't adequacy. I don't have relating to right at present to get on at accumulate to paste it, but I dream it requirements to assign. And I'm not provide evidence why breath of air was matte that these sections requisite to flaw forked go halves - I don't deliberate the item is too long (you have coalesce check "readable prose" - which I will beat this evening), and picture article flowed well, meat my discord, before interpretation fork-off. Straightfaced my tendency is ordain reinstate depiction removed sections. Tvoz|talk18:50, 7 May 2007 (UTC)Talk:Marshall McLuhan/Archive 2
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