Best known these days for his phrases "The medium is the message" (the championship of i of his books was
The Medium is the Massage), too "the global village", non to holler a cameo appearance inward Woody Allen's moving-picture present
Annie Hall,
Marshall McLuhan was a prophet of the novel communications technology too the founder of Media Studies amongst his majority
Understanding Media (1964). Last yr was the 100th anniversary of his birth, too he died inward 1980. But in that place is a lot to a greater extent than to him than this, too equally an educator too philosopher he repays careful attention. He was, past times the way, a Catholic convert inward 1937 thank y'all to the influence of G.K. Chesterton. Wikipedia (a phenomenon that would convey interested him greatly) tells us non entirely that he claimed intellectual guidance from the Virgin Mary, only that he had a lifelong involvement inward the number 3 – his conversion began equally he was studying the Trivium (the starting fourth dimension 3 Liberal Arts) for his thesis at Cambridge University.
That thesis was published for the starting fourth dimension time inward 2006 past times Gingko Press, too examines the history of the Trivium from Classical times to the Renaissance. McLuhan himself was an exponent of Rhetoric inward the traditional too broadest feel – so his involvement inward the communications media. He saw how each novel technology (writing, print, telephone, TV, computer) effectively transforms human noesis too society. He predicted the WWW too analysed its effects equally early on equally 1962.
The latest number of
The Chesterton Review contains a span of pieces on McLuhan inward "News & Comments". One (by Jeet Heer) concludes that to appreciate the amount profundity of McLuhan's idea y'all request to read books similar Hugh Kenner's
The Mechanic Muse, Walter Ong's
Orality too Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, and Nicholas Carr's
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. But don't fail to read McLuhan.
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