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But McLuhan would say, try not to only think about the fact that we make the tools. Think about how much the tools make us as well.

McLuhan once said, “We don’t know who discovered water, but we know it wasn’t a fish. A pervasive environment, a pervasive medium is always beyond perception.” The big point to McLuhan is this: the messages that these media of written language are sending to us go far beyond the actual content or subject matter of the thing that’s being written... See more

@MarkAllanKaplan

1 year ago

It is the brilliant minds and beautiful hearts of new generation explorers like Kei Kreutler who give me hope for the future. In this talk she integrates multiple domains of knowledge to explore the theoretical and practical dimensions of mediums of memory. Her passionate search has a deep and higher framework that... See more

Perhaps the key to finding the illegible margin is captured in Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Amos Tversky’s quip: “the secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.”

Because you’re looking for something which is hard to see, you have to have some sort of “tinkering budget”... See more

I realized that the craftsmen of yore had elevated weaponry, a category of merely utilitarian objects, into some of the most exquisite things I had ever seen. They had taken objects of ubiquitous, vital importance in their respective eras and made them beautiful. My initial aesthetic shock was quickly replaced by jealousy — no one was lifting the... See more