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... Understanding Media , McLu- han goes further , showing how the new electronics will guar- antee an end to all wars , and establish eternal peace on earth . There is no need to study the conflicts in society , the patterns of economics ...
... Understanding Media , McLu- han goes further , showing how the new electronics will guar- antee an end to all wars , and establish eternal peace on earth . There is no need to study the conflicts in society , the patterns of economics ...
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... understanding . People no longer need to read . Words stand in the way of the single world consciousness that is coming upon us . Just as primitive tribal society had no need for words , but only sound and touch , so the future world ...
... understanding . People no longer need to read . Words stand in the way of the single world consciousness that is coming upon us . Just as primitive tribal society had no need for words , but only sound and touch , so the future world ...
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... Understanding Media , this blindness on McLuhan's part appears as a total distortion of history ; human history with the humans who created it left out . " If the student of media will but meditate on the power of the medium of electric ...
... Understanding Media , this blindness on McLuhan's part appears as a total distortion of history ; human history with the humans who created it left out . " If the student of media will but meditate on the power of the medium of electric ...
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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