
Dialectics Deep Dive (pt. 3b): Marshall McLuhan & the Medium-as-Message
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The Introduction to Understanding Media
After 3,000 years of explosion by means of fragmentary and mechanical technologies, the western world is imploding. We have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace,. abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned. Rapidly, we've approached the final phase of the extensions of man, the technological simulation of consciousness. When the creative process of knowing will be collectively and corporately extended to the whole of human society. He sort of anticipates the modern internet in a way, which unfortunately, because he's not really a Marxist analyst, didn't see how capital is going to distort that into a grotesque thing instead of something that brings humanity together.
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