Another good author on literacy vs. orality is David Olson, author of The World on Paper (1996) and The Mind on Paper (2016). Right up there with Goody.
For a more, er, artistic meditation on media theory, I'd suggest watching David Cronenberg's VIDEODROME - it's McLuhan as a distorted horror film. (McLuhan himself had nothing but praise for the artist's insight into media, so this suggestion is legit.)
Thanks for this. I am going to have to read some more of McCluhan’s works. In reality probably simply add them to the piles of unread books that already surround me acting like spiritual talismans against the rising intellectual Darkness. Anyway…three more works are listed below that I found helpful in analysing human mediation creation. They offer analyses about how we remember, how that informs how we construct society and how this in turn feedbacks into how we experience time:
THE HOMELESS MIND: Peter Berger, Brigitte Berger & Hansfried Keller (1974)
Great list, Andrey. Thanks for sharing! A lot to get into for a while. Contributing two essays:
Jon Askonas - Reality: A Post Mortem
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/collections/reality-a-post-mortem
Rusty Guinn - Men of God in the City of Men
https://www.epsilontheory.com/men-of-god-in-the-city-of-man-part-1-virus/
Thanks, Marcos. Jon’s essay “How Stewart Made Tucker” is my favorite, and it’s indeed media ecological. I’ve added the link to his entire series.
Another good author on literacy vs. orality is David Olson, author of The World on Paper (1996) and The Mind on Paper (2016). Right up there with Goody.
For a more, er, artistic meditation on media theory, I'd suggest watching David Cronenberg's VIDEODROME - it's McLuhan as a distorted horror film. (McLuhan himself had nothing but praise for the artist's insight into media, so this suggestion is legit.)
Thanks for this. I am going to have to read some more of McCluhan’s works. In reality probably simply add them to the piles of unread books that already surround me acting like spiritual talismans against the rising intellectual Darkness. Anyway…three more works are listed below that I found helpful in analysing human mediation creation. They offer analyses about how we remember, how that informs how we construct society and how this in turn feedbacks into how we experience time:
THE HOMELESS MIND: Peter Berger, Brigitte Berger & Hansfried Keller (1974)
HOW SOCIETIES REMEMBER: Paul Connerton (1989)
TIME: Barbara Adam (2004)