
Episode 112: Readings from the 'Book of Probes': The Mysticism of Marshall McLuhan
Weird Studies
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What's the Big Story of Mc Lean?
i think of words as sounds, and visualizing words performing that abstractfying operation where you take the sound of a word and you break it down analytically into a sequence of sounds. That operation of astracting meaning into symbols, i had a huge problem with that. Actually, music helped me kind of like put my brain together so i could be useful, i functional in the world. But this is something i've always been aware of, is that it's possible to be a person with a stronger auditory orientation. These are media that are re instituting the psycho dynamics of acoustic space. For mc luan, gutenberg leads to a vast intensification of that visualist
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