Understanding Media
That’s why McLuhan said that every time a new medium comes along—a new way for humans to communicate—it has buried in it a message. It is gently guiding us to see the world according to a new set of codes. The way information gets to you, McLuhan argued, is more important than the information itself.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Major new mediums change the structure of discourse. Books demand that you sit still and pay attention for long periods. Television’s demands on you are much different.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
McLuhan famously said, the medium is the message .
With Sublime, the medium — messy, nonlinear ideas, inspirations, and insights before they coalesce into something final — is the message.
With Sublime, the medium — messy, nonlinear ideas, inspirations, and insights before they coalesce into something final — is the message.
Sari Azout • Problems Sublime Solves—at Least for Me
Like so many technologies that came before, it seems to be here to stay; the question is not how to escape it but how to understand ourselves in its inescapable wake.
In his new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” Justin E. H. Smith, a professor of philosophy at the Université Paris Cité, argues that “the present situation is intolerab... See more
In his new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” Justin E. H. Smith, a professor of philosophy at the Université Paris Cité, argues that “the present situation is intolerab... See more