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Discussing #UMRG Chapters 23, 24 and 25
On Monday, May 6th, at 16:00 CET we will have our next virtual meeting for #UMRG. Click this link to see the meeting in your own timezone. We will use Adobe Connect. Click on the following link to join...
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McLuhan in Wired Magazine
I stumbled on a faux interview with McLuhan in Wired from 1996. It is prefaced as follows: Scholars agree that Marshall McLuhan’s earliest books were written by him, but there is mystery and...
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The Opposite of Play isn’t Work, its Depression
Kars Alfrink from Hubbub just helped us to have a great discussion about MLuhan, games, art, play and work: Watch/listen to the recording Make sure to check out the chat transcript for a set of links...
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McLuhan on Innovation
This thinking about innovation is very common nowadays, but McLuhan wrote the following in 1964 and just has a particular way with words that I very much appreciate. From page 336 (of the ISBN...
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Dennie Heye on Chapters 26 to 29 for #UMRG
Dennie Heye has written the following about chapter 26 to 29. To be honest, it took me a while to get into McLuhan’s writing. It reminded me of the theoretical books and articles I read during my...
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Ñusta Nina on Chapters 26 to 29 for #UMRG
Ñusta Nina has created a set of slides as a summary for chapters 26 to 29. Make sure to check out the embedded videos and her questions at the end: Click to see the slide show Filed under: Chapter...
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Discussing #UMRG Chapters 26 to 29
On Monday, May 13th, at 16:00 CET we will have our next virtual meeting for #UMRG. Click this link to see the meeting in your own timezone. We will use Adobe Connect. Click on the following link to...
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Recording of the week 8 #UMRG meeting
We had an interesting discussion just now about the usage of phones in our current society and how movies are changing (especially in relation to books). We also talked about hierarchies in large...
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Mark the date! Terry Gordon to Lecture on McLuhan for #UMRG
W. Terrence Gordon W. Terrence (Terry) Gordon has kindly offered to give us a virtual guest lecture on McLuhan. He is the author of many books and is the editor of Gingko Press’ Critical Edition of...
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McLuhan on What TV Does Best
This week we are reading the Understanding Media chapter on Television (The Timid Giant). In this video McLuhan explains why he thinks that TV fosters patterns rather than events: Filed under: Videos
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Dial-in Details for the Terry Gordon Lecture
On Monday, May 20th, at 16:00 CET we will have our next virtual meeting for #UMRG. Click this link to see the meeting in your own timezone. We will use Adobe Connect. Click on the following link to...
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Will Monroe on Chapters 30 and 31 for #UMRG
Will Monroe wrote to me “I’m glad I was able to work with these chapters; they were among the most interesting that I’ve read so far.” Below his summary on chapters 30 and 31. Chapter 30 – Radio: The...
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W. Terrence Gordon on McLuhan for #UMRG
Just now we had a very interesting conversation with Terry Gordon. Gordon has edited critical editions of McLuhan’s work and is McLuhan’s biographer. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to record the audio (we...
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(TV) Coverage has Taken the Place of War Itself
McLuhan saying that the coverage of war is bigger than the war itself: I wonder what I he would have thought of drones… Filed under: Videos
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McLuhan talking about Presidential TV Debates
Here is McLuhan talking about the 1976 Carter – Ford debate (he didn’t think much of it): Filed under: Videos
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Lawrence O’Connor on Chapters 32 and 33 for #UMRG
Lawrence O’Connor wrote to me: “[My summary] was to have loads of illustration and music, I wanted it to be as poetic as my experience of the text but underestimated the task so it is speech only.” His...
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Dial-in Details for the Final #UMRG Meeting
On Monday, May 27th, at 16:00 CET we will have our final virtual meeting for #UMRG. Click this link to see the meeting in your own timezone. We will use Adobe Connect. Click on the following link to...
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#UMRG Links, Thoughts and Comments #6
Will Monroe shared two links with us this week. The first is Mark Federman’s reply to danah boyd asking how to define work. He quotes from Understanding Media: ‘Work,’ however, does not exist in a...
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