McLuhan: Still the Message After All These Years
James Poulos, Ed. ·
Jul 21, 2010 at 1:18pm
Via BoingBoing, it's Marshall McLuhan's 99th birthday:
This calls for a song:
Toto released "99" in 1979, the year before McLuhan died.
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Jun '10
Re: McLuhan: Still the Message After All These Years
I think if McLuhan were around today, he'd be fascinated by hip hop culture. It exists everywhere in the world now, with Japanese or Danish kids rapping in slang that has zero relevance to where they live. All they know is, it looks and sounds cool in the videos.
May '10
Re: McLuhan: Still the Message After All These Years
"Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot." ~ Marshall McLuhan
May '10
Re: McLuhan: Still the Message After All These Years
FYI, from what I gather, (via Douglas Coupland's recent biography, etc.) he was a deeply, even if quietly, Christian man, attending mass weekly.
Jul '10
Re: McLuhan: Still the Message After All These Years
Can't get that song out of my head....
New rule: No more posting music videos.