Sense and Nonsense of McLuhan |
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Page 13
... machines , he says , can already translate instantly any code or language into any other code or lan- guage . " The ... machine and the television picture tube . The data McLuhan offers may jar some readers who believe that a professor ...
... machines , he says , can already translate instantly any code or language into any other code or lan- guage . " The ... machine and the television picture tube . The data McLuhan offers may jar some readers who believe that a professor ...
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... machine created nature painting : " This older environment was elevated into an art form by the new mechanical environment . The machine turned Nature into an art form . For the first time men began to regard Nature as a source of ...
... machine created nature painting : " This older environment was elevated into an art form by the new mechanical environment . The machine turned Nature into an art form . For the first time men began to regard Nature as a source of ...
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... machine age . The only machine that seems to have come within Rembrandt's ken was the windmill . Another revolutionary effect of the machine , to McLuhan , is that it ended human toil , with the result that visionary dreamers like ...
... machine age . The only machine that seems to have come within Rembrandt's ken was the windmill . Another revolutionary effect of the machine , to McLuhan , is that it ended human toil , with the result that visionary dreamers like ...
Contents
The Revolution in Media and a Revolutionary Kind of Book | 7 |
McLuhanese History vs Real History | 15 |
The Mythical War of the Senses | 31 |
Copyright | |
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